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Cole’s bell ‘picked’ and recovered
Here we see the original brass bell from the USS Cole (DD-155), a Wickes-class “four-piper” destroyer laid down in the last year of the Great War, named for Maj. Edward Ball Cole, a Marine killed at...
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97 years ago today: Dewey’s flagship, bringing home the saddest casualty back...
A colorized image of the Unknown Soldier’s casket being carried off of OLYMPIA, which is featured in the background. Via Independence Seaport Museum. You can see Gen. Blackjack Pershing to the right,...
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SBD of Morocco
Yes, a Navy dive bomber on a dirt road in North Africa. It happened. Below we have a U.S. Navy SBD (Scout Bomber, Douglas) Dauntless dive bomber, likely of Carrier Air Group 4’s VS-41 “Tophatters,”...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018: The Quilt City Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Nasty making it back
Official caption: “MACV/SOG Naval Advisory Detachment: Two Nasty-class PTF’s returning at dawn from a sea commando mission into the DMZ area in 1971. This was a particularly successful mission, with no...
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Blowing smoke, 75 years ago today
USS Minneapolis (CA-36) bombarding Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll, on 20 November 1943, shortly before U.S. Army forces landed there. Guns firing are from the cruiser’s starboard side 5″/25-caliber...
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Tapping in, 53 years ago today
(Abbreviated Warship Wednesday due to the holidays). USS Independence (CVA-62) (foreground) and USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) rendezvous in the Indian Ocean on 21 November 1965– OTD 53 years ago....
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100 Years of Turkey Day
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Here we see a quartet of U.S. Navy chief petty officers in the city of Ponta Delgado, Azores, on Thanksgiving Day, 1918. They seem to have obtained the services of one...
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USPS gives a salute to Mighty Mo
Next year, this will be my go-to Forever stamp: And they did it in Measure MS-32/22D camo! The USS Missouri (BB 63) stamp will celebrate the nation’s “*Last Battleship.” The release will coincide with...
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Why yes, that IS an Artemus Wheeler revolving flintlock rifle
For decades, Mark Aziz haunted gun and trade shows from coast to coast amassing a collection the likes few have seen. And now it is up for auction. Aziz, an Army Air Corps veteran with a love of...
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As a 10-year-old youth who spent his spare time watching B&W war films, building Testors scale models, and plinking with his .22 at targets that approximated the most heinous enemies you could...
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The story behind President George H.W. Bush’s long-lost service revolver
Before he was President, George H.W. Bush was a Navy pilot in WWII and carried a S&W revolver in case he had to bail out. After he managed to keep the .38 with him when he ditched his flaming...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018: 41 and his paddle-wheel flattop
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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This day
“The Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor”. Charcoal and chalk by Commander Griffith Bailey Coale, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, 1944. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Center, Washington, D.C....
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And you think it’s cold where you are, 44 years ago today edition
NHHC Photo: 428-GX-USN 1163442 by PH2R. Beaudet A UH-1D Iroquois helicopter Antarctic Air Development Squadron Six, VXE-6, outside an ice cave in the edge of the Mount Erebus Ice Tongue. December 7,...
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And just like that, the Burkes are 30
A port bow view of the guided-missile destroyer USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51) underway in rough seas. Camera Operator: PH3 JAMES COLLINS Date Shot: 31 Mar 1993 DNSC9303708 USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), the...
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Lewis, by way of Savage
Savage Arms during the Great War made Lewis guns for the Canadians (in .303), the Tsar of Russia (in 7.62x54R), and the U.S. Army & Navy (in .30-06), the latter in both M1917 (ground) and M1918...
View ArticleAegis Ashore batting 3 out of 5
“KAUAI, Hawaii (Dec. 10, 2018) A Standard Missile (SM) 3 Block IIA is launched from the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii, Dec. 10, 2018,...
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Indy (should) get a Gold Medal from Congress, 74 years after the fact
This photo was taken 27 July 1945, the day before she sailed from Guam to her doom, as documented by the ship’s photographer of USS Pandemus (ARL 18), on the back of the photo. This is probably the...
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Back on Earth, but not home yet, 53 years ago today
Photo credit: NASA https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/gemini/gemini7/html/s65-61828.html #S65-61828 (18 Dec. 1965) — Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., the pilot of the Gemini-7 spaceflight, is...
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