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Kulbir Thapa Magar, VC
A new memorial, dedicated to the first Gurkha to win the Victoria Cross, Kulbir Thapa Magar, has been unveiled in Princes Gardens, Aldershot. “The statue will serve as a lasting memorial as well as a...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021: A Hell of a Night
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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Out West
Sorry, I have been a little out of pocket this week, but I’ve been visiting a certain well-known suppressor and firearms maker in Utah for a few days and having a blast while doing it. They actually...
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The Gremlin to Join the Fleet
Pennsylvania-born Emlen Lewis Tunnell earned a nickname in his football career of “The Gremlin” and was both the first African-American to play for the Giants (14 seasons before going to Green Bay, at...
View ArticleDugan Ashley Brought the 2A Community light, now he needs our help
A lowkey Vet who gave a ray of light and humor to the gun community that has yet to be surpassed, has signaled that he is “going to be sitting this one out.” Dugan Ashely, through his slapsticky yet...
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Strange Encounter
73 Years Ago Today: An American pilot in an Israeli-marked German plane made in Czechoslovakia went head-to-head with two Egyptian pilots behind the sticks of British-made fighters in one of the most...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021: The Story of an Unsinkable Carrierman, and...
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Cross of Lorraine
76 years ago today, while the Navy was fighting off the last major sortie of the Japanese fleet in the Philipines, the ground war in Europe was slogging away. Battered but happy Soldiers of the 79th...
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The Devil’s Own, Fighting All-Comers
1 September 1943: The Tommy gun-toting “Devil’s Own” a group of salty Australians of 2/5th Infantry Bn (6 Australian Division), who helped drive the Japanese from Mount Tambu, clearing the way for the...
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To Find a Path
77 Years Ago Today: Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. 1944-11-06. Members of B Company, 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion aboard the former Hawkesbury River (New South Wales) vehicular ferry, the Frances...
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Monclar’s Winchester
Raoul Charles Magrin-Vernerey was born in Budapest, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1892 to French parents. Accepted to Saint-Cyr, France’s West Point, in 1912, he was rushed to graduation in...
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Lost Battalion Actual
Other than Sgt. York, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Pershing himself, perhaps the best-known American Soldier of the Great War was a bookish lawyer from New York City, Charles Whittlesey. The bespectacled...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021: The Great White Fleet’s Beautiful Accidental...
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Slow Salute to CAPT Dole and COL Shames
The “Greatest Generation” included over 16 million Americans who served during WWII in uniform. Today, the VA estimates that barely 300,000 of these Vets remain, a number that is growing smaller...
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Little Groups of Marines with Switchblades
One of the most inspiring, and telling in my opinion, modern battles was the morning-long scrap between LT Keith Mills and 22 of his Royal Marines against an Argentine force on remote South Georgia...
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Monkeying around
Every year on December 14th National Monkey Day “celebrates the unique characteristics of simians.” With that: Besides such nautical terms as the monkey yards and brass monkeys, obstacles such as the...
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All That was Left of Them
Via the National Army Museum, Study collection: 17th Lancers near Modderfontein farm, near Tarkastad, in what is today South Africa, 17 September 1901, during the Boer Wars. Known today as the Battle...
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Jack Frost will Bite More Than Your Nose
Happy first day of winter! “His Majesty the King inspects invasion troops, here, officers of the 5th Battalion (Caithness and Sutherland), Seaforth Highlanders during a snow storm at Gorhambury Park...
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Happy New Year, Gang
Offical caption, some 70 years ago this month: Missouri infantrymen with the 19th Infantry Regiment (24th Infantry Division) along the Kumsong front in Korea wish Happy New Year to the stateside...
View ArticleThree Volleys for T/5 Lawrence Brooks
Lawrence Brooks, believed to be the country’s oldest World War II veteran, died yesterday at the age of 112. Born in Louisiana and raised in Mississippi, he trained at Camp Shelby with the 91st...
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