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Great Job, Now Pivot
80 years ago today. Official Caption: “Homeward Bound. Sicily, Salerno, and Normandy are on the log of this LCI flotilla making its triumphant homecoming at an East Coast port. Invasion craft sailed...
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Smoke Break
Near La Neuveville, France. 25 October, 1944. Official wartime caption: “Infantrymen relieved from combat for rest, await removal to a rest camp.” 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division. Left...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024: The Ones That Got Away
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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Remember to thank your Veterans and wear your poppies today
No further posts today. Official wartime caption: “Pvt. James L. Poust, Hughesville, Pa., displays a mud-covered face after having carried wounded men over mired and muddy roads of eastern France, 13...
View ArticleFallujah at 20
Although they have been in hundreds of engagements and campaigns since 1775, only a handful of fights are noteworthy enough to have shaped the Marine Corps for generations and echo throughout history,...
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Konspiracja
Some 85 years ago this week, one of the largest– and simultaneously least supported by the Allies– underground resistance armies in WWII took its first key organizational steps. The Polish military...
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Hidden Roadside Gem– and its Amazing guns
Tucked along the roadside in Polson, Montana is one of the largest collections of American history in the country – and I got lost there for a day this summer. Gil and Joanne Mangels founded the...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Nov. 21, 2024: The Sweet Pea
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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Feet Wet during Rang Dong
Some 57 years ago this week. 21 November 1967, near Cat Lai, Republic of Vietnam. Official caption: PFC Fred L. Greenleaf, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade...
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Send in the Scouts!
Happy National Native American Heritage Month. With that, how about a short look at the 20th Century U.S. Army Indian Scouts program? While the Army used native troops going back to the Revolution,...
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Feet Wet
These recent shots of Army SF and Marines doing the small boat/frogman thing, complete with Dräger LAR rebreathers and CRRCs. (Components of images have often been blurred for Persec). U.S. Army...
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K Ration Thanksgiving
80 years ago. Official period caption. “80th Infantry Division. Near Faulquemont, France. 23 November, 1944. Three American infantrymen eat K Rations on Thanksgiving day in a dugout somewhere in...
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Tokyo Terror
Some 80 years ago today. 13 December 1944, in San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, a Skysoldier of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry, covers an area with his M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. Note...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024: Ignore the orders, we will save the Sailors
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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Redfish Amok!
Some 80 years ago today, the Balao-class fleet submarine USS Redfish (SS-395), on only her Second War Patrol, under the command of T/CDR Louis Darby McGregor, Jr., torpedoed and sank the brand...
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More on Carney’s Red Sea Getaway
The guided-missile destroyer USS Carney launches land-attack missiles while operating in the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command area of responsibility, Feb. 3, 2024. The Carney was deployed as part of...
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1363…1363…1363
20 June 1963. A brand new Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard (S-62C) doing what it was good at– landing in calm(ish) water to make hull-borne rescues, in this case during an exercise. The bird, CG1363...
View ArticleUSMC Yule Log
Grab your copy of MCDP-1 and curl up by the fire in the Commandant’s Office. Yut!
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A ‘full-fledged D-E sailor’
Short Cruise on a Destroyer Escort, By Ernie Pyle: “So now I’m a D-E sailor. Full-fledged one. Drenched from head to foot with salt water. Sleep with a leg crooked around your rack so you won’t fall...
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Touring Germany with a Chopped Down M1 Carbine
With personal space at a premium inside the tracked metal monsters of a World War II tank battalion, guns sometimes got unofficially smaller. Check out this great image, snapped some 80 years ago this...
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