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That’s going to buff out…
80 years ago, the “long hulled” Essex-class fleet carrier USS Randolph (CV-15) is seen with damage to her aft flight deck as the result of a Japanese Yokosuka P1Y Ginga “Frances” kamikaze attack...
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Zouaves and surfboats!
From Osprey’s upcoming title, American Civil War Amphibious Tactics, by Ron Field, illustrated by Steve Noon: Hawkins’ Zouaves At Hatteras Inlet, August 28, 1861 Elements of the 9th New York Infantry,...
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Air Force Drops $2B (more) on Long Range Strike Game
From yesterday’s DOD Contract announcements, emphasis mine: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $1,925,877,406 firm-fixed-price, undefinitized...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Here we see, some 80 years ago this month, four leaf clover-wearing General Motors FM-2 Wildcats and Grumman TBM-3 Avengers of Composite Squadron (VC) 93 aboard the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS...
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Renegade Gunfighter
Some 50 years ago, a spectacular image of a Vought F-8J Crusader of VF-24, the “Fighting Renegades,” in flight, 1975. U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7337.016 Assigned to...
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Zippo Monitor, in Vivid Color!
Early 1969 U.S. Navy images from the National Archives, show a “Zippo” flamethrower installed on a 56-foot Armored Troop Carrier monitor– an armored LCM (6) landing craft– in testing along an unnamed...
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Uncle Chester Shuffles out for One Last Go
Named in honor of the fleet admiral that oversaw the Pacific War, the USS Nimitz (CVAN/CVN-68) was ordered on 31 March 1967 and commissioned just over eight years later on 11 April 1975. USS Nimitz...
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Crusader at 70
The F8U (after 1962, F-8) Crusader first flew on 25 March 1955. To salue the “Gunfighter,” how about this great laydown image. A Vought F-8D Crusader with all of its possible armament: In the center...
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Warship Wednesday, March 26, 2025: First of 65
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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Denton takes to the water
The third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at Ingalls, the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), has hit the water for the first time. Importantly, she carries the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air...
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