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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Jan 2, 2020: One Tough Russian
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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And you think it’s cold shoveling the walk…
How about these nice balmy pictures from the Royal Danish Navy’s Thetis-class offshore patrol frigate HDMS Triton (F358) off the southwest coast of Greenland, where it is something on the order of 20...
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A break between Fallschirmjägers and destiny
TEC5 Thomas “Red” O’Brien, C Company, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th (Yankee) Division, getting a quick meal in while parked on a snowbank near Mecher, Luxembourg, 75 years ago yesterday. Photo by TEC5...
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Dr. Watson, bring your revolver(s)
So I saw this interesting listing pop up from Milestone Auctions, centered on a cased pair of beautiful (although non-sequential) Colt Model 1878 double action cartridge revolvers. As you may well...
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Bazooka Boy Scout
In this 1960s Army recruiting poster, we see PFC Vernon K. Haught, of the 82nd ABN Divison’s 325th Glider Rgt, around the final act of the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, as he strolls in the...
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Farewell, Sonny
What can I say, everyone loves wheelguns, right? (And yes, that is my Colt Dick along with same-period Roscoe switchblade, thanks for noticing!) Famed Gotham detective and noted crime writer (Murder at...
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Resilience
German supply train taking a break to water the draught horses in a nearby river, WWII Whenever I see images like these, of German soldiers leading horses in WWII, I think of my maternal great...
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Vale, Mad Mike
Colonel Thomas Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare Colonel Thomas Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare, who fought in the British Army in WWII before going on to lead the famous (infamous?) mercenary unit known as 4 Commando...
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So long, Kirk Douglas
As a kid, I kept seeing the same cleft-chin rugged man’s man in my favorite war movies: Paths of Glory, In Harms Way, Cast a Giant Shadow, Is Paris Burning, Heroes of Telemark, Victory at Entebbe, The...
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Farewell, to those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
The AVG Flying Tigers Association posted the terrible news this weekend: “Frank Losonsky, the last living AVG Flying Tiger, headed West today, on 6 February 2020. RIP Frank, a Crew Chief of the 3rd...
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Serial Numbers, Serial Numbers, Serial Numbers or how Gun Day Needs to Happen
A deer rifle swiped from underneath a blanket on the bed of a pickup truck during hunting season 47 years ago recently surfaced some 500 miles away from where it vanished from. Police were able to...
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Hand salute to Woody
One of the most popular weapons used to root out the Japanese on Iwo Jima, 75 years ago this week, was the M2 flamethrower, and with good reason. Defending the fortress was Lt. Gen. Tadamichi...
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A little bit of my childhood just passed away
Between 1973 and 2018, the swaggering Dirk Pitt, a decorated Air Force pilot on loan to a fictional maritime agency who often found himself a human monkey wrench thrust into the center of...
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NASA is now actively looking for the next generation of astronauts for the Artemis Moon-to-Mars program and is taking applications. No, really. Astronaut candidates must have earned a master’s degree...
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“Greyhound” is finally here
I’ve known about this for a couple years, and been on the periphery of it as it was filmed, in part, on local museum ships such as the USS Kidd and USS Orleck in Louisiana. Further, some of my friends...
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Happy National Napping Day
Just in case you didn’t know, the Monday after Daylight Savings Time spring’s back is National Napping Day. In true LSOZI fashion, this is my take. Marine Sgt. Robert Gwinn, 1st Reconnaissance...
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Welcome aboard, Woody
Named for MoH recipient Cpl. Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the U.S. Navy commissioned its newest expeditionary sea base– USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams (ESB 4) in Norfolk, Virginia over the weekend....
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I guess we know how that chess game ended
As a kid, Emperor Ming terrified me, while as an adult I found appreciation for the drawn-out game of chess between Death and nihilistic Danish crusader Antonius Block. In between, I saw the same...
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Warship Wednesday, March 11, 2020: Flory’s Battle-scarred Bugle
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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For the 19th Century Gentleman who already had everything
Hailing from the day in which a gentleman would be educated in the manly arts of boxing and stand ready to sally forth to tackle the occasional brigand, cane guns were offered from gunmakers in...
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