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Got a light, bub?
80 years ago today. One of the most iconic images from Operation Detachment. Marine Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, of Wichita, Kansas, armed with a flame thrower, takes a break to light up his...
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Powell, Awash
80 years ago today, on 27 February 1945, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was seen in a series of period Kodachromes during a very wet replenishment near Japan alongside the fast...
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Bren & Mills
Offical caption: Gunner J. Hinchcliffe, of Sheffield, 30 years old, and upholsterer before the war, setting out on a “recce” patrol in the Dunkirk perimeter, 3 March 1945. The Bren Gunner is assigned...
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Wurm Swim
An unusual sight some 80 years ago this month. Likely on the Wurm River system near recently captured Aachen, Germany, March 1945, we see a great period original Kodachrome capturing U.S. Army...
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Warship Wednesday, March 5, 2025: Poster Child for the Donald Duck Navy
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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Fortune Helps the Daring
How about this amazing shot of a Fleet Air Arm Tarpon (Avenger) being spotted on the deck of armored carrier HMS Illustrious (87) in March 1945, some 80 years ago this month, while in operations with...
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Tay Ninh Umbrellas
March 1963. Static line ARVN paratroopers jump from USAF Fairchild C-123 Providers of the 346th Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault) during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike...
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No River Too Swift
It happened 80 years ago today. Rhine River, Worms, Germany, U.S. Seventh Army area of operations. The official caption to period original Kodachrome: “U.S. Army mechanized forces cross the Rhine River...
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Traveling light
Some 80 years ago, “backpacking around Europe,” a GI takes a breather along the Rhine in increasingly Allied-occupied Germany, April 1945. LIFE Magazine Archives – William Vandivert Photographer...
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Rolling Bones
80 years ago. Awaiting removal of a roadblock on the road to Eisfeld, Germany, a 90mm GMC M36 tank destroyer crew whiles away the time shooting craps. 28th Infantry Division (“Keystone”), U.S. Third...
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Rock and Roll
A U.S. Navy Patrol Boat, Riverine (PBR) crewman mans his twin M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun mount as the craft patrols the Vung Tau River in Vietnam on 14 April 1966, “in anticipation of trouble...
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Joker’s Wild
It happened 80 years ago today. Mindanao Operations, Philippines, 1945. Original period Kodachrome. Official caption: “PT boats speed through Polloc Harbor, Mindanao, while supporting landings there,...
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Willpower, self-discipline, and perseverance
New soldiers and officers from the Royal Swedish Navy’s Stockholm Amphibious Regiment (amfibieregemente) recently completed their annual Övning Amfibie, a final exam of sorts for the regiment. A small...
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Mindanao Doughboys
It happened 80 years ago today. Infantry troops of Company B, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry “Victory” Division, marching towards the Mindanao River in pursuit of Japanese forces retreating near...
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Aitape Triple Canopy
80 years ago this week: 26-year-old Australian Army Private Rosslyn Frederick Gaudry (Service Number: NX94822) of 2/3rd Infantry Battalion, 16th Brigade, 6th Division “watches his sector with his Owen...
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Just in case things get rowdy
50 years ago today. Official period caption, 1st Marine Brigade aboard the carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) on 28 April 1975. Operation Frequent Wind. “Sgt. M.C. Murdock, assigned as a side gunner in one...
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Smokin pic
It happened 60 years ago today. Official period caption: “The shadow of a U.S. Navy photograph reconnaissance jet passes near a burning Communist Vietnamese PT boat after it was blasted by U.S....
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