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Recalled!
80 years ago today, official caption: “CPO George Sanderson. View was taken in 1942. Sanderson held the distinction of being the oldest man in the armed forces on active duty. Joined (sloop-of-war)...
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The Old Man Returns to Manage the Joint
In July 1937, some 85 years ago this month, otherwise surface warfare-qualified Capt. William Frederick Halsey Jr. (USNA 1904) arrived at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola– where he had just earned...
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Sprucan Desert Shield Watercolors
While assigned to the Middle East Force from September to December 1990, the Pascagoula-built Spruance-class destroyer USS O’Brien (DD-975) participated in maritime interdiction as part of Operation...
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Assiniboine takes a scalp
Some 80 years ago today, on 6 August 1942, the Royal Canadian Navy’s C-class destroyer leader HMCS Assiniboine (I18) turned herself into a knife to slice up a German sausage in the form of a U-boat...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022: Savo Pig Boat Avenger
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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Brown Shoes of Fighting Six
80 years ago: Four aviators of Fighter Squadron Six (VF-6) — two of which are enlisted “silver eagle” NAP pilots– pose beside a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat (Bureau # 5126) on board the Yorktown-class...
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Last ‘Ace in a Day’
On this day in 1945, LT Oscar Francis Perdomo, USAAF, became the last American Ace of WWII, bagging four Ki-84 “Frank” fighters and one Yokosuka “Willow” trainer. (While the 507th Fighter Group...
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Starvation Island
Via the National Museum of the U.S. Marine Corps: The decision by the Navy to remove all transports and cargo vessels around Guadalcanal on 9 August 1942 [following the slaughter of TG 62.6 in the...
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75 Years Ago: Back-to-Back Skystreak Records
Pre-dating Chuck Yeager’s ride in X-1, U.S. Navy CDR Turner Foster “Stinky” Caldwell set a new world air-speed record of 640.663 mph while flying Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak #1 (Bureau No. 37970-NACA...
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75 Years Ago: End of the Trail
28 August 1947. Retirement ceremony of the last four U.S. Army Indian Scouts at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Photo from the LIFE Magazine Archives – Allan Grant Photographer The four Apache Indian Scouts...
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Shilling’s photo ‘Hawk
What a great original 80-year-old color photo of the American Volunteer Group “Flying Tigers” posing on one very special aircraft. A group of AVG pilots poses for the camera. Erik Shilling is on the...
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A Good Pilot in a Capable Plane Goes a Long Way
On this day: 70 years ago (September 10, 1952), Captain Jesse Gregory Folmar (MCSN: 0-26438), from the “Checkerboards” of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 312 of the jeep carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118),...
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80 Years Ago: Boyington is Back, Baby
Born in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho in December 1912, Gregory Boyington sought out the military at age 21. Commissioned a 2nd LT in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1934, serving with the cannon cockers of the 630th...
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Silk Good Luck Charm
U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sergeant George W. Parks was an engineer and top turret gunner on a B-17 in the European Theater across eight months of some of the worst aerial combat over the continent in...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022: Stuck in the Middle
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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A Little Flour, a Bit of .45…
80 Years Ago: A 6th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabee) baker, M1911 on his side for those special moments, bakes bread in an oven recycled from Japanese materials at Guadalcanal, 26 October 1942....
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Lindbergh’s Own, 1944 Edition
Here we see a group of Army Aviators clustered around “White 29,” Bell P-39Q-5-BE Airacobra/42-20349, of the “Musketeers” of the 110th Reconnaissance Squadron (Fighter), taken at Tadji Airfield, New...
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Whistling up an Essex class carrier and matching Corsairs
Ensign Jesse L. Brown, USN. In the cockpit of an F4U-4 Corsair fighter, circa 1950. He was the first African-American to be trained by the Navy as a Naval Aviator, and as such, he became the first...
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Echohawk
The 45th Infantry (“Thunderbird”) Division Museum in Oklahoma recently shared a gripping series of combat drawings by Brummett Echohawk. An unofficial war artist, Echohawk was a Pawnee, Kit-Kahaki...
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Santa Jumps with the Marines to Honor Toys for Tots
Parachutes? Check. Dress Blues? Check. C-130? Check. Santa Claus? Oh, you know that’s a check. High over Camp Shelby, Mississippi earlier this month, Marines of the 3rd Reconnaissance Company and the...
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