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Do you know the names of BB-59’s Turret Three’s guns?
The 16-inch guns on the USS Massachusetts were used to plaster enemy ships and troops during World War II and her caretakers are looking for help uncovering their lost history. Commissioned in 1942,...
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Never underestimate household materials
From the collection of the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center, Ft. Lee: This is a Vietnamese, homemade, floating water mine that was made circa 1970. It is constructed of a cardboard box...
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Keeping acrobatic
ICYMI, check out these amazing images of the Canadian Forces 431 Air Demonstration Squadron (Snowbirds) along with the USAF’s Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels. Some 151 years of friendship in...
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And the LCS just keep coming
Lockheed-Martin’s Freedom-class LCS 11, the future USS Sioux City, will be the first combat ship ever commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She was delivered to the Navy last...
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A big stick in Portsmouth harbor once more, 32 years ago today
20 September 1986: US Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) enters Portsmouth Naval Base, note HMS Victory, and several 372-foot long Royal Navy Leander-class frigates in the background for size comparison....
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Pascagoula periscopes
As a Pascagoula kid, I spent a lot of time looking at boats and ships growing up as they made their way through Ingalls. I remember the Spru-cans and their Ticonderoga half-sisters cranking through the...
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Distributed lethality & Naval Strategy 2025: More aircraft, more missiles,...
A lot of people worry that there could be a great power naval war sometime in the next generation. As such, the “fleet you have,” which last fought a live-fire fleet engagement with a near-peer...
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Close enough to get a rash
Here we see a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type-052C destroyer, specifically CNS Lanzhou (170) giving static to the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Decatur (DDG-73) while underway in...
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The Gator Navy
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 30, 2018) Marines and Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) pass under the Golden Gate Bridge to participate in San Francisco Fleet Week 2018,...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018: Father goose and his guard fish
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Field of T-28s must go…or will be crushed
For the frugal warbird flyer in search of a fleet of fixer-uppers, there is a dealer selling 34 retired piston-engine trainers — in various conditions. Platinum Fighters is selling a few squadrons’...
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One generation removed from Mr. Lincoln’s Corps
Marine Lt. Wendell Cushing Neville (far left, with sword) presents the Marine Guard detachment aboard the 2nd-class battleship/armored cruiser USS Maine (ACR-1), circa 1895. Note the Springfield M1884...
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Old Salts
“The Old Navy” (“Spinning a Yarn” aboard USS Mohican, 1888) Description: The Old Navy (Spinning a Yarn aboard USS Mohican, 1888) Oil on canvas, 37 x 49, by Rufus F. Zogbaum (1849-1925). Painting signed...
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Is it 1991 again?
So three things happened over the weekend. #1 & #2, the Navy christened two brand new Virginia-class SSN’s on the same day (Saturday) some 500 miles part when they broke bottles at Newport News for...
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Guess who out-shot the Marines and NSWG?
A two-man team from the 75th Ranger Regiment bested a crowded field of snipers from around the world last week in the 18th Annual International Sniper Competition– for the second time in as many years....
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50 years ago today: The last flight of the X-15
NASA research pilot William “Bill” Dana is seen standing next to the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft after a flight in 1967. (NASA) At the National Air and Space Administration test pilot Bill Dana was at...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018: One of the most unsung Boxers in the ring
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 first sting, 41 years ago
U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archive 428-GX-K-118818. Photographed by PH2 James C. Brown Here we see a parked YF-17A/F-18 Prototype aircraft aboard Naval Air Station,...
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Lighting up the sky on All Saints Day, 75 years ago today
Here we see the Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Columbia (CL-56), her after 6″/47cal gun turrets just absolutely lighting up the sky during a night bombardment of Japanese facilities in the Shortland...
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