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Buy another $100 War Bond, quick!
Colonel Lewis’ light machine gun, a pre-WWI design, though snubbed by the Army was well-liked by the Navy and Marines and was still used to one degree or another on a number of U.S. Navy vessels early...
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Five castaways belonging to four different carriers
This has to be a great story in this picture, taken of five men who evidently survived being shot down in the Philippines in late 1944/early 1945 and survived as best they could until being plucked up...
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Scratching that Unterseeboot itch from the air
While 765 German U-boats were lost by all causes in WWII, one of the leading was due to Allied air attacks, especially after late 1942. Here are a few of the losses that made the photo gallery....
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Hunter Killers!
Below is a great 1967 film featuring Grumman S-2E Trackers of Sea Control Squadron Twenty Four (VS-24) Scouts and VS-27 Pelicans and Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helos of HS-3 Tridents from Carrier...
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Warship Wednesday, July 12, 2017: Woodrow’s biggest German
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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OPSEC
Note the ship’s name has been redacted. You can never be too careful. 80-G-54637 Photograph released October 19, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. “USS Harris...
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Girded for war
U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-10695, now in the collections of the National Archives. “USS Memphis (CL 13), Fire-Control Gun-Captain, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class is preparing to fire a charge. The belt...
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Warship Wednesday, July 19, 2017: The Belgian sword master and his legacy
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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Canadian whisky in U.S-built FFG recovered in Oz
To replace their aging Adams (Perth)-class DDGs, the Royal Australian Navy in the 1980s ordered a six-pack of Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigates. Known as the Adelaide-class in RAN...
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The mosquito boats at Midway
While the huge carrier task forces get all the attention at Midway, there was also an unsung fleet of plywood boats who took part in the battle as well. As part of the local defenses at Midway were 11...
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The Navy’s railgun’s rate of fire is now up to 2 rounds in 10 seconds, which...
The Office of Naval Research quietly released footage of the all-electric railgun spitting out a couple of rounds back-to-back at Mach 6. The undated footage comes from Naval Surface Warfare Center...
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There may very well be a couple Garands afloat in the Navy until 2067
In watching the footage and imagery coming from the commissioning of the largest aircraft carrier ever built, the brand new USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) on Saturday, the below struck me as a great...
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When you visit just 1 museum ship, you visit many
Floating museum ships around the world take to searching for missing parts and items from their vessel as they often received the ship after decades in mothballs where they were cannibalized to keep...
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Warship Wednesday, July 26, 2017: Doctor Jekyll and HM’s gunboat
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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The ‘Battle Cat’ still serves
Sailors from the Nimitz-class supercarrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) recently conducted damage control and medical training during three damage control “rodeo” events held aboard the decommissioned...
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Remember, blue does not mean inert…
So a guy in Massachusetts got to looking at his grandpa’s old military souvenir, which everyone just took to be a keepsake. Then he noted the bomblet had a charge inside. From the video, the device...
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The roaring 20s on Sugar boats at Olongapo
“Submarines at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines” U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 51830 Description: Crewmen posing with a 4/50 deck gun on board a S-Type submarine,...
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That time the U.S. Navy sent a wolfpack to hunt a wolfpack
Here we see the painting “SubRon50: The Jerry Hunters” by Dwight Clark Shepler. Painted in 1943, it shows three of seven “boats” of the U.S. Submarine Squadron 50 alongside the elderly USS Beaver...
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Looks like Ford can catch, and receive
ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 28, 2017) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 flies over USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). The aircraft carrier is underway conducting test and...
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The story of how Remington helped win the air war
On the skeet range at N.A.S. Saint Louis, Missouri, 29 April 1944. Gunner is Lieutenant Junior Grade Rothschild, instructed by Martin. Shotgun is a Remington Model 11, 12 gauge semiautomatic, on a...
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