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Bazooka Joes

80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...

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Going Inland

80 years ago today. Operation Detachment. Iwo Jima, 20 February 1945 0900, D-Day plus 1. Official wartime caption. “Going Inland, Determination written on their countenances, Marines start the drive...

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Got a light, bub?

80 years ago today. One of the most iconic images from Operation Detachment. Marine Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, of Wichita, Kansas, armed with a flame thrower, takes a break to light up his...

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Powell, Awash

80 years ago today, on 27 February 1945, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was seen in a series of period Kodachromes during a very wet replenishment near Japan alongside the fast...

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Bren & Mills

Offical caption: Gunner J. Hinchcliffe, of Sheffield, 30 years old, and upholsterer before the war, setting out on a “recce” patrol in the Dunkirk perimeter, 3 March 1945. The Bren Gunner is assigned...

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Wurm Swim

An unusual sight some 80 years ago this month. Likely on the Wurm River system near recently captured Aachen, Germany, March 1945, we see a great period original Kodachrome capturing U.S. Army...

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Warship Wednesday, March 5, 2025: Poster Child for the Donald Duck Navy

Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...

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Fortune Helps the Daring

How about this amazing shot of a Fleet Air Arm Tarpon (Avenger) being spotted on the deck of armored carrier HMS Illustrious (87) in March 1945, some 80 years ago this month, while in operations with...

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Tay Ninh Umbrellas

March 1963. Static line ARVN paratroopers jump from USAF Fairchild C-123 Providers of the 346th Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault) during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike...

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No River Too Swift

It happened 80 years ago today. Rhine River, Worms, Germany, U.S. Seventh Army area of operations. The official caption to period original Kodachrome: “U.S. Army mechanized forces cross the Rhine River...

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