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Zeta Birdhouse Blues
Last Spring, I ended up with some warped and busted slats after a repair on my wooden privacy fence and crafted some simple bird boxes. All you need is one retired fence picket, cut into six assorted...
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Meet 2nd Lt. William Pershing, Great Great Nephew of General of the Armies John J. Pershing. Sometimes the apple doesn’t fall far.
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020: Spaghetti & Stringbags
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Kiss the fish!
Official caption: “As a part of Royal Canadian Naval tradition, Master Seaman Shaun Duguay kisses the fish as part of the initiation to become a new “Shellback” (members who have crossed the Arctic...
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How you Know you are Getting older
I saw this great image today, taken at the Van Nuys Airport circa 1957, and the first thing I thought was, “Man, that F-86 Sabre is sweet.” Whomp Whomp For reference, in 1955, a gently modded...
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Happy Turkey Day. Eat it if you got it
U.S. Army Infantrymen Pfc. William G. Curtis of San Diego, California, and Pfc. Donald R. Stratton of Colville, Washington of the U.S. 102nd Infantry Division has time for a very brief Thanksgiving...
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Vale, Lt. Col. D’Este
With over 40 works in and out of print, almost all focused intensely on WWII-era Western military history, odds are you have a couple of books by Lt. Col. Carlo D’Este, USAR, ret. on your shelves....
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Frozen Chosin at 70
Take a minute sometime in the next couple of weeks to remember the Marines– along with Navy Corpsmen and U.S. Army troops— who were trapped in what could be called the Chosin Pocket along the Changjin...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020: Pickin up a Submarine 6-Pack
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Well Convoyed
Dec. 1918, Offical caption on this Underwood & Underwood news photo shows what is likely a Northern Mine Barrage veteran: “Well Convoyed” This bluejacket just back after six months service in the...
View ArticleForging a Marine, the Garand Way
The saying goes is that “you join the Army, you join the Navy, you join the Air Force, but you become a Marine.” With that in mind, check out this circa 1961 training film, Making of a Marine,...
View ArticleThe Right Stuff
Brig. Gen. Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager, after service in WWII (where he finished the war with 11.5 official victories, including one of the first air-to-air victories over a jet fighter), Korea and...
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Hail, Achilles!
In honor of the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate, which saw three British cruisers chase down the German pocket battleship KMS Admiral Graf Spee on 13 December 1939, below is the...
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World War II Veteran Vincent J. Speranza, spent 144 days in combat with Company H, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and, at 95, is one of the estimated 600 or so remaining...
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Christmas at Sea
The ship-rigged screw sloop-of-war USS Monongahela under sail, with starboard studding sails spread in very light wind, while serving as U.S. Naval Academy Practice Ship in 1894-99. Courtesy of Edward...
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Ready for Action, 77 Years Ago Today
Official caption: “PFC Kenneth C. Crowley, USMC, Plymouth, Mass., crouches behind a log on the first day of action on Cape Gloucester. A few minutes after this picture was made, he advanced with his...
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From the Midwest to Malmedy
Just three Midwestern guys smoking and joking while backpacking through Europe, 76 years ago today. Official caption: En route to front lines, beyond Malmedy, Belgium, American Infantrymen pause to...
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‘Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Hitler?’: So Long, Dad’s Army, 75...
LDV ( Local Defence Volunteers – the forerunner of the Home Guard) in instructed on how to fire a rifle at the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, 22 June 1940. On 31 December 1945, with...
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Flash and the locals
Here we see a Daimler Mk. 1 Scout Car, apparently named “Flash”, crewed by Troopers W. Balinnan and A. Gallant of an unidentified Canadian reconnaissance regiment [likely the 4th Reconnaissance...
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Snow panther
75 years ago today with the Army of Occupation in soon-to-be West Germany. Original Caption 2: “Private Eugene Hamilton of Huntington, Long Island, New York, guards the 761st Tank Battalion tanks.”...
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