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71 years ago today, WWII meets WWI during the Cold War at the crossroads to...
National Archives image 80-G-366179. In early April 1946 the battleship USS Missouri (BB 63), at the center of this photo, arrived at Istanbul in Turkey to return the body of the Turkish ambassador...
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Navy fedex’s 59 TLAMs to Syria via overnight delivery
It looks like the Navy really plastered Shayrat Airfield in Homs with several flights of Tomahawks from USS Ross (DDG-71) “Fortune Favors Valor” and USS Porter (DDG-78) “Freedom’s Champion” in...
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Farewell, Chief Petty Officer Otto Sharkey
Also known as S1c Don Rickles (1926-2017), USN 1944-46. Rickles enlisted in the Navy after high school and served in the Pacific during World War II on the USS Cyrene, a PT-boat tender that saw action...
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Chasing down those 21st Century mines
This is the current minehunting system: U.S. 7TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (March 23, 2017) Mineman 1st Class Sean McDermott prepares to launch a mine neutralization vehicle aboard the mine...
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CIWS gets updated
Defense contractor Raytheon is testing a modified version of their Phalanx Close-In Weapon System that will let soldiers and sailors fire at varying rates, using less ammunition. Designed in the 1970s...
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Warship Wednesday, April 19, 2017: The busy year of the Raiders’ taxi service
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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‘A Sailor’s Prayer’
Donation of the Montana Historical Society. Collection of Philip Barbour, Jr., 1958. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 86250 click to big up 1000×787 “A Sailor’s Prayer:...
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Warship Wednesday, May 3, 2017: The battleship slaying avenger of the Pacific
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Looking for a slightly used 60-year-old YP?
Laid down, 10 April 1957, at Stephens Bros, Inc., Stockton, CA, YP-655 was a YP- 654-class Training Craft used at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, and apparently the Surface Warfare Officer’s School...
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Warship Wednesday, May 10, 2017: ‘All Vessels: Make Smoke!’
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period, and one of the most interesting tasks of a bygone era was that of making...
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45 Years ago today..
Click to big up 2003×1328 F-4J-35-MC Phantom II “Showtime 104” of Fighter Squadron (VF) 96 pictured on a catapult on board the carrier USS Constellation (CVA 64) steaming in the Gulf of Tonkin during...
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Poking through Collector’s Corner in Atlanta
Tucked away in the “100s” the collector section at NRAAM took up the first aisle of the Georgia World Congress Center exhibition hall and the assemblage of preservationists, auction houses and relic...
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To Davy Jones: Tamaroa’s final cruise
The 205-foot Medium Endurance Cutter TAMAROA, stationed at Governors Island, NY, stands ready for patrol duties. USCG painting by William Sturm. One of the hardest serving ships in U.S. maritime...
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Releasing the Kraken (don’t eat a big meal before riding one of these)
Remember all the old footage of NASA and USAF test pilots getting the lunch and super high g-force knocked out of them? Well Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton at Wright-Patterson AFB has a Kraken...
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Civilized
Two unidentified Marines pose for a portrait in Manila, circa 1901. From the James B. Manion Collection (COLL/86) in the Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections. Note the Krag-Jorgensen rifles...
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Who wants some postcards?
I like estate sales and enjoy attending them as I tend to find great old knives, militaria, and firearms up for grabs. One sale I recently attended was for a late local Biloxi-area photographer who...
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30 Years ago today: Tea party at the pole
Here we see the famous photo of the first U.S./British coordinated surfacing at the North Pole, 18 May 1987, with three nuclear-powered hunter killer fleet submarines chilling in the Arctic. Photo via...
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The carrier air wing wrecking crew circa 1975
Here we see what the Navy’s attack team looked like for a hot minute around the mid-1970s before the Hornet made it to the fleet, stacked up for a group photo at NAS Oceana. The new and exotic...
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Happy 100th to the most forgotten service
This week is the 100th birthday of one of the most unsung of the U.S.’s seven uniformed services– the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps. USS Albatross, or as NOAA thinks of her now, Albatross I Dating...
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Warship Wednesday, May 24, 2017: The leopard of rum row turned magic-eyed...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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