Warship Wednesday, May 29, 2019: About that new Marker in Times Square
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...
View ArticleColumbia headed to realty, in just 12 short years
Huntington Ingalls showed off footage of cutting the first steel plate of the new Columbia-class (SSBN 826) ballistic missile submarine at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia last week. The 12...
View ArticleThe naval formations of the future will likely look nothing like they do today
I just watched this really informative and thought-provoking 1~hour long lecture from Capt. Jeff Kline, USN (Ret.), professor of practice, operations research, at the Naval Post Graduate School in...
View ArticleBlack Dragon in need of some help
From the now 76-year-old Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) Museum in Camden, NJ: New Jersey looking for volunteers… The Battleship is looking for volunteers to help restore more than 40,000 square feet of...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, June 5, 2019: Overlord’s First Loss, now 75 years on
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...
View ArticleD-Day through the brush of a GI who was there, 75 years ago today
D-Day, as seen below in eight, often haunting, paintings from U.S. Army combat artist Mitchell Jamieson, who landed in Normandy on Utah Beach with an M1 Garand and a sketchbook on 6 June before making...
View ArticleD-Day at 75: An Epilogue
As The Greatest Generation ages and increasingly drifts from the present and into memory with each passing day, their footprints on those hallowed beaches on Normandy are washed away. With that, I...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday: Opening Up the Beach edition
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
View ArticleGotta Getta Jolly
Nothing like a floating, boat-hulled helicopter: Photo by STAFF SGT. Mark Johnson. NARA 330-CFD-DF-ST-91-11166 A CH-3E Jolly Green Giant [modified Sea King] helicopter from the 1550th Combat Crew...
View ArticleD-Day Plus Seven
Here we see what Normandy looked like a week after Overlord in combat artist and Combat Gallery Sunday alum Dwight Shepler‘s 1944 watercolor, “D-Day Plus Seven, Omaha Beach Head, Landing scene with the...
View ArticleA sub, a monitor and a destroyer walk into a (dry) bar in Philly, 93 years...
Here we see a vintage Prohibition-era gathering that shows the old 3,300-ton Arkansas-class monitor-turned submarine tender USS Cheyenne (IX-4) (ex-Wyoming BM-10), inboard at left with the early...
View ArticleNothing says ‘good morning’ like 5″ batteries, 75 years ago today
This beautiful originial Kodachrome shows the 5″/25cal (127 mm) Mark 10 battery aboard the U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) preparing to fire during the bombardment of Saipan, 15 June 1944....
View ArticleBoom!
“GULF OF THAILAND (June 7, 2019) The Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer (MCM 9) observes a controlled mine detonation while conducting a joint mine countermeasures exercise with the...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Coming Full Circle, OTD 104 & 75 Years Ago
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...
View ArticleFiled Under: Other Navy Ships Named for Coasties
With the news earlier this month that SECNAV will be naming one of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers after the late (great) Capt. Quentin Walsh, USCG, I’ve seen several news sources– both...
View ArticleLimpet mine update: ‘With high confidence’
U.S. Navy CDR Sean Kido, head of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One One (EODMU 11) explains the attack on the Panama-flagged chemical/oil tanker Kokuka Courageous (19,349t) and the...
View ArticlePee Dee’s popguns
Built at the Mars Bluff Shipyard, along the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, it should be no surprise the 170-foot Macon-class shallow draft schooner-rigged steam gunboat constructed there in 1864...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, June 26, 2019: The sub-smoking Greenfish of the Amazon
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...
View ArticleBe sure to get your Mighty Mo on
Best $11 I ever spent at the U.S. Post Office. Of note, these were officially unveiled in a joint presser with USPS and RADM Brian Fort, commander of Navy Region Hawaii/Commander, Naval Surface Group...
View ArticleWhat a difference 75 years makes
Of note, this month is the 75th anniversary of Battle of the Philippine Sea that left three Japanese carriers and 600 irreplaceable pilots and crew of the IJN’s fleet air arm at the bottom of the...
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