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Warship Wednesday (on a Friday): The Tennessee peace cruiser
Sorry about the late posting this week, in the effort to get to SHOT Show in Vegas this weekend and with the winter weather making horse care more pressing, its been busy this week! Here at LSOZI, we...
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One of the Kaiser’s boats no longer unaccounted for
When SMS U-31 of the Kaiserliche Marine‘s IV Flotilla sailed from Wilhelmshaven on 13 January 1915, and disappeared shortly thereafter, it was assumed, she had struck a mine and sunk with all hands,...
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Warship Wednesday: Feb. 3, 2016, HMs Unlucky Killer No. 13
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Ah, those hard serving Lithuanians
Here we see a young guards officer of the Tsar’s Russian Imperial Army, Staff captain of the Life-Guards Lithuanian Regiment Bogutskiy in June 1915 during some of the darkest days of the First World...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Vernon Howe Bailey
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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Is 37mm or 47mm the proper deck gun for Tea?
New York, 1917. “Actors’ Fund Fair.” 5×7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, via Shorpy. The Navy deck guns on loan look to be either Hotchkiss 1-pdr (37mm) or 3-pdr (47mm) breechloaders,...
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Warship Wednesday: Feb. 17, 2016, The Frozen Northern Lights(hip)
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I didn’t hear you…can you speak into the microphone
Image From Historical Firearms : Stanley Llewellyn Wood’s painting of Lieutenant Young, 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment [now part of the Princess of Wales’s Royal...
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8,500 stone figures to haunt Jutland
By the time the wreaths are ready to drop on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland/Skagerrak (May 31-June 1 1916), Danish diver and historian Gert Norman Andersen, in connection with the Sea...
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Max Brooks on the Harlem Hell Fighters
The 369th INF Regiment (15th New York National Guard Infantry Regiment) was formed in 1913 and was known after their WWI service as the Harlem Hellfighters, the Black Rattlers and the Men of Bronze due...
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Of a mids cruise and a rare sword
The Coast Guard Historical Foundation posted this excellent find from Periscope Film from the cusp of WWII. “Made in 1939 just before WWII, this short film shows the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New...
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Warship Wednesday: Feb. 24, 2016, Calling the Conestoga, Calling the Conestoga…
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Old aunt Elfriede
While the Germans during WWII became some of the best tank makers in the world (ever heard of the Tiger, Panther and King Tiger?), the Kaiser’s armor game in the Great War really kinda sucked. The...
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On HMs Great War swords
Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria is pretty much the go-to guy on a lot of martial swords, sabre and blades and he has done a few videos in the past couple weeks on WWI era British edged weapons that...
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99 years ago today
‘The Last Inspection” depicting Tsar Nicholas II inspecting the Cossacks of the Konvoy at Pskov, March 15, 1917 after he abdicated. The men of the unit in many cases had been with the sovereign for...
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Conestoga, found
Modern painting of the USS Conestoga (AT 54) on its final voyage pounding through large waves during a gale off Southeast Farallon Island in March 1921. Credit: Artist Danijel Frka © Russ Matthews Col....
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Mmmm, trench mag…
Decorated Bavarian infantrymen pose with two French prisoners of war. The fellow in the centre wears the insignia of the Chasseur à pied (French light infantry) on his helmet, the other one isn’t so...
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Warship Wednesday March 30, 2016: Of Mines and Khartoum
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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A gal, a huge rifle, a passion for Curios and Relics
I had a really interesting interview last week with Mae from C&Rsenal, primarily about their massive Mauser M1918 T-Geweher anti-tank rifle, but also about curios and relics in general. Photo by...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Col. John W. Thomason, Jr., USMC
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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