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Getting the creeps at Fort Morgan
Every year the good folks at Fort Morgan run a historic nighttime tour around Halloween focusing on the more morbid side of things there. As the fort is 200 years old (construction began in 1819) and...
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75 years ago: You can run…
A Japanese Navy Kawanishi H8K2 “Emily” patrol seaplane, #801-77, flies close to the ocean while trying to escape from a PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber (a U.S. Navy B-24s with only minor modifications),...
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Gerald, turning and burning
Just the Ford making some high-speed turns on 29 October. Looks pretty good for a carrier that has been sidelined for the past 15 months in post-delivery repairs err, post-shakedown availability....
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Slow Death of the Nachi, 75 years on
One of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s mighty quartet of Myoko-class heavy cruisers, Nachi was a 13,000-ton brawler built at the Kure Naval Arsenal and commissioned in 1928. Carrying five dual twin...
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Reverence, 88 years ago today
You almost get a sense of storm clouds on the horizon here in this beautiful image of a “treaty cruiser,” USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, 7 November 1931, her launch...
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Of Peruvian Periscopes off San Diego
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 1, 2019) An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the Magicians of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 conducts a hoist exercise with the Peruvian navy submarine BAP Angamos...
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Aluminum overcast with flecks of Blue
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 3, 2019) Offical Caption: “The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, fly in formation with the B-29 Superfortress “Doc” during the 2019 California Capital...
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Remember, today is not about saving upto 20% on select merchandise
Division Cemetery, Okinawa, 1945, Photo via Marine Corps Archives In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words To us in...
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Grayback discovered
USS GRAYBACK (SS-208) data plaque, photographed in 1941. NHHC 19-N-24245 The Lost 52 Project, which aims to find all of the U.S. Navy’s WWII submarines still on Eternal Patrol, this week announced they...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019: A Dazzling Flivver
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Cruiser? Battleship? Something in between maybe
By looking at the profile of the warship below, you would be likely to think it a late-WWII era U.S. heavy cruiser, perhaps of the big 13,000-ton Oregon City-class or maybe even an example of the...
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Boeing recently put out this interesting 5~ minute clip covering the past 50 years of the Blue Angels’ aircraft showcasing the F4J Phantom (1969-74), A-4F Skyhawk (1974-86) and F-18 Hornet...
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E&E, Battle of the Atlantic edition
IMA just posted a couple of very interesting WWII U.S. Navy escape and evasion barter kits which were issued to aircrews should they be needed to help them buy their way to freedom in occupied or...
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So I watched Midway…
To be clear, the current Midway movie is at least the third film– counting John Ford’s WWII-era propaganda short and the verbose 1976 Henry Fonda flick– to be centered around the pivotal battle of the...
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Dahlgren gun line
Via the Naval General Board on FB: US Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division naval gun line in June 1989: Front to back, my best guesses: 5″/54 caliber Mark 42 gun 8″/55 caliber Mark 71 gun OTO...
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Tommy guns and Junks
Via U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War: In a scene that looks more like Burma in 1945 than Indochina in 1965, EN1 Carl L. Scott, an advisor to the Vietnamese Coastal Junk Force, stands in front of members of...
View ArticleHolding class on Midway & War Plan Orange
An overview of the Battle of Midway by Professor Craig Symonds to included Station HYPO’s role and some tidbits often missed or glossed over. Craig Symonds is the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J. King...
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USS Tampa flag found
The 240-foot Modoc-class of cutters was conceived for blue water use by the new Post-Great War multi-mission Coast Guard in the 1920s. Capable of carrying three 5-inch guns, a pretty stout armament for...
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The more things change
Loading a torpedo in an early U.S. submarine, 1900s. Note monitor in the background: A submarine crewman guiding a torpedo through the loading hatch on USS Adder (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3), Cavite...
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100K MHS Series Pistols and Counting
New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer announced last week that they have reached a milestone in delivering new pistols to the U.S. Armed Forces. Since winning the contentious Modular Handgun System contract...
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