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Death’s Head pennant from the Marne, and its echos
This 26-inch long, 13-inch wide cavalry pennant came currently on display at the Imperial War Museum in London may look like it comes from the Napoleonic period but in fact is a century newer. From...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Jakub Rozalski
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, photographers...
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Warship Wednesday July 27, 2016: The RNs factory for curiosities in...
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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Warship Wednesday Aug 3, 2016: The Grand Ole Bear
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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LOC does the Great War
Joseph Pennell (1857–1926). Submarines in Dry Dock, 1917. Transfer lithographic drawing. Bequest of the Estate of Joseph Pennell. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 10, 2016: The Dynamite Buffalo of Rio
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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Pedersen gun pr0n- The WWI superweapon that (almost) won the war
Here we see a beautiful Springfield Armory 1903 MK I .30-06 SPRG caliber rifle with an uber rare and original Pedersen device. Mr. Pedersen’s device was a very simple top loading, blowback-operated...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 17, 2016: The quiet but everlasting Alert
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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Caucasian horsemen and their rare bolt-guns
Here we see a group of of the 2nd General Krukovskii’s Mountain-Mozdok Regiment of the Terek Cossacks, with their distinctive Cossack model Mosin-Nagant Model 91s. The Cossacks were organized somewhat...
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The Légion Etrangère remembers their own
Alan Seeger was born in New York City on June 22, 1888, and received a BA from Harvard University in 1910 where he edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly– alongside future 10 Days that Shook the...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 24, 2016: 100-feet of Turkish Surprise
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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Protecting HMs frontiers, via Vickers
While the sun may have never set on the British Empire (until 1956, anyway), the Brits were big fans of using technology to their advantage to allow units with small footprints to control large areas....
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Warship Wednesday Aug. 31, 2016: The Nebraska stiletto
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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The Biggest Yank of WWI
Len Dyer of the National Armor and Cavalry Restoration Center discusses the World War I era Mark VIII Tank, of which just two are still in existence, both in the possession of the U.S. Army. The Mark...
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Rum subs of the bootlegger era
Today we have narco subs (self-propelled semi-submersibles, or SPSSs) to deal with but they are an idea that is almost a century old. The Volstead Act in 1919 came at a time of technological...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of James Arthur Pownall
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, photographers...
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Dear Mum,
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library Biplane above the clouds. Handwritten on photograph front: “France, 1918, De Haviland ‘4.’” Handwritten on photograph back: “De...
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Warship Wednesday October 5, 2016: The quiet behemoth of Toulhars
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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Guess how many 16-inch shells are left in storage?
Crewmen load a 16-inch shell aboard the battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB 64) as the vessel is readied for sea trials (Photo: National Archives) The answer to that would be 15,595 live ones in 10 different...
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The last full measure, 101 years ago
The Scottish war poet Capt. Charles Hamilton Sorley of the Suffolk Regiment was killed in 1915 at the Battle of Loos. He was the youngest of the major war poets, having been born in 1895. He left this...
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