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Blue Ridge Smoke Break
77 Years Ago Today: Two riflemen from E Company, 1st Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, take a moment to roll their own cigarettes in Goesdorf (Luxembourg), 10 January 1945....
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8th & I Showing how it’s Done
Via Marine Barracks Washington, Marine Corps Ceremonial Marchers and Body Bearers standing tall: Marines of Marine Barracks Washington 8th & I weathered the snowstorm to honor a fallen brother on...
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Last Sleep of the Brave
Lieutenants Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill (aged 26) and Teignmouth Melvill (aged 36) of the 1st Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, were killed attempting to defend their unit’s...
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Walking the Beat, USS Charleston
Great visuals here. Ensign, Naval Strike Missiles, force protection detail, deck gun, South Pacific clime, submarine tender in the distance. Naval heritage carried over from generations past. APRA...
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M14 Still Getting it Done in the Fleet
Looking like a recruiting poster aimed at gun nerds, the Navy recently published a series of photos showing the M14 (MK 14) still very much in use. Check out this supped-up and chopped-down model in...
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Taps for Jumping Jack
On 10 August 1944, Lt. John “Jumping Jack” Singlaub parachuted behind German lines with Jedburgh teams to work with the French Resistance Maquis groups that had swelled the resistance ranks after the...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022: Lucky Herndon
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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Robbie’s Destroyer
Here we see a great traditional group shot of the crew of the San Diego-based, Pascagoula-built, Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) that was posted this week. You may notice...
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Heard a story about 800 surplus K-frames
Long a staple of police and security use, surplus stainless steel Smith & Wesson medium-sized duty revolvers still have a lot of life left. The S&W K-frame was the standard police-issue...
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Gipper’s SECDEF Getting his Springfield on
Via the Camp Roberts Historical Museum: Arlin Weinberger, a supporter of our museum and member of our Chancellery, visited us recently and donated these photos of her father, taken during his training...
View ArticleAll Hail, the Candy Bomber!
Col. Gail Seymour “Hal” Halvorsen, AKA the “Berlin Candy Bomber” or “Uncle Wiggly Wings,” passed away last week at age 101, leaving a life well-lived. Hal, born in 1920 in Salt Lake City, joined the...
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Seabees, still ready to Build & Fight After 80 Years
Arising from a need to rapidly build bases on remote islands for the push across the Pacific during World War II, today’s Seabee force turns 80 this month. Tracing their unofficial origins to 300...
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Happy National Napping Day
Tinian Invasion, 1944: A Marine takes a field nap after coming off the line on Tinian, August 2, 1944. Note M-1 carbine, “duck hunter” camo helmet cover, and spare .30 cal ammo cans. USMC 91358 /...
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Three By Tuskegee
1LT Harry T. Stewart Jr., foreground, of Queens, New York, is pictured on April 1, 1945, when returning from an escort mission in his P-51D Mustang. Stewart is holding up three fingers to indicate...
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80 Years Ago: Chesty Puller, Pirate
Lt. Col. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in American history, fulfills his solemn duties as Davy Jones during a Neptunus Rex Shellback ceremony in April 1942 aboard the...
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Vale, Jack Higgins (and Hugh Marlowe, Martin Fallon, and James Graham)
Born 27 July 1929, Henry Patterson grew up poor in Northern Ireland. A good lad, he did his two years of national service in the late 1940s, first with the East Yorks, then as an NCO with the Blues...
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A Gentlemanly Guards Sniper
Terry Wieland over at American Rifleman has a great article on a “Gentleman’s Trench Rifle,” specifically, a Royal Grade H&H single-shot, complete with scope, that went to war against The Huns...
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Bon voyage et bon chance, Jacques Perrin
Born during the German occupation, Jacques André Simonet came from a Paris theatre family– he made his first uncredited film appearance at age five. Typically credited as Jacques Perrin, he was a part...
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Happy 200th, Sam!
On this day in 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Jesse Root Grant, a tanner and merchant, and Hannah Simpson Grant welcomed their first child to the planet. With his name chosen from ballots placed in a...
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Hussars of the Andes
Tracing its organization back to 1810, Regimiento de Caballería N°3 “Húsares” of the Chilean army is one of the few horse-mounted cavalry units in the world. And yes, they used to be comparable to...
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