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Dogs Playing Poker, Capt. Casey edition
Happy National Bulldog Day! This 1891 photograph via the Detroit Photographic Company shows Captain Silas Casey III (USNA 1860), skipper of the cruiser USS Newark (C-1), sitting in his well-furnished...
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Snipers, up, eh
80 years ago today: An unidentified infantryman of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, who is armed with an Enfield P14 sniper rifle and scope, taking part in a sniping-stalking-camouflage training...
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One last laugh with Billy Waugh
You may have previously heard that ARSOF legend, Retired SGM Billy Waugh, recently packed his duffle for the last time at the age of 93. His military career spanned 30 years from Korea to Vietnam,...
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Insult to Inury
80 Years Ago Today: The 6th of May, 1943, near Tunis, Algeria. 1st. Lt. Jerry Collinsworth, USAAF, thumbs his nose at the pilot of a German Luftwaffe Fw190 he just shot down. This was the fourth of...
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Vale, Kyle Ronald Porter
First off, I just want to say that much of the press about Fireforce Ventures came from left-leaning and much-skewed small Canadian media outlets looking to sensationalize on the merch the small...
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Happy 101st, Mr. Miskelly
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Southwest recently saluted the 101st birthday of a WWII-era Coastie, Lewis Miskelly Jr. Born in Pennsylvania in 1922, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts prior...
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Holy Pith Helmets, Batman
How about this great group shot of the officers of the brand new 191-foot U.S. Revenue Cutter Tahoma, dressed in their tropical whites, complete with sun helmets. U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office...
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How a Trench Knife in a French Cemetery Led to Honoring a Fallen Great War GI
The Disson M1917 and later M1918 trench knives, or “knuckle dusters” were a uniquely American item in the Great War In February 2018, a French undertaker working in a cemetery in Villers-sur-Fere, a...
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Forgotten Canadians: The WWII Veterans Guard
With news that the Canadian military just this week has finally made progress on replacing their WWII-era Browning Hi-Powers, this 80th-anniversary image seems very relevant: The above shows one...
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Snapshots from the battle, 105 Years Ago
The naval Battle of Santiago/Combate en Santiago de Cuba, on 3 July 1898, pitting the five battleships, two armored cruisers, and two armed yachts of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and RADM William...
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July 4th, 1943: Just a Day on the Beach
80 years ago today. New Georgia Operation, 1943. (Codename: Operation Toenails). “Marines unloading LCIs on a Rendova Island beach, July 4, 1943. They are unloading in a hurry after a bomb struck...
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Gavin’s D-Day jacket
Below is the M1942 Paratrooper jacket that Brig. Gen. James Maurice “Jumpin’ Jim” Gavin (USMA 1925) wore on the drop by the 82nd Airborne into Normandy, courtesy of the West Point Museum. Of note, 80...
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Poppy Field Dambuster Actual
80 years ago today: Original period Kodachrome of Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, commander of No. 617 Squadron (now known as the “Dambusters”) at Scampton,...
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Off to play among the stars…
Always been a fan of the great Mr. Tony Bennett. I saw him years ago in New Orleans and it was a thorough treat. With his passing, it should be pointed out that Anthony Dominick Benedetto, son of...
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Beware Japanese destroyer bows if you are in a plywood boat…
I’m on the road this week and don’t have time to do a proper Warship Wednesday but I would be remiss if I missed the 80th anniversary of the loss of an Elco-built 80-foot motor torpedo boat, lost when...
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Honneur à l’Ancien
40 years ago: A throwback to the old Le Poilu (“the hairy one”) of Great War frame is this portrait of a Légionnaire of the 1er Régiment Etranger de Cavalerie (1 REC) at the French military’s Biltine...
View Article50 Years Ago: A Productive Labor Day Weekend
Dr. Bradford Parkinson (USNA 1957) is a well-respective professor at Colorado State University and Stanford University, as well as the holder of multiple former president and CEO positions in the...
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Cheeseburger N48550 and N43320
Just prior to his death, the late flip-flop-clad crooner Jimmy Buffett– a Pascagoula boy like myself– passed on a pair of his treasured aircraft to live on in posterity to the USS Alabama museum in...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023: Of Mustaches, Stars, and Condemned Cannons
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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The last of the Class of ’40…
Two great republics lost their final cadets from the “Class of 1940” in the past few days. BG Paul D. Phillips Born on March 9, 1918, Brigadier General Paul Phillips (USMA 1940), a red stripe from...
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