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Bronze coins from Manila Bay
OLYMPIA’s propellers photographed in a floating drydock in 1904 Via the Independence Seaport Museum: Cruiser OLYMPIA’s two propellers (screws) were 14 feet in diameter and had three blades. The screws,...
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75 Easters Ago: Mount Suribachi
Easter morning on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima: Catalog #: USN 49025 Caption: Their ardor undampened by a drizzling rain, Marines and Navy Seabees attend open-air divine services atop Mount Suribachi on...
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Zap Ya with the Eye of God
This 17 May 1988 image shows peak Cold War frogmen foreshadowing the role they would increasingly carry out in the Sandbox for the next 30 years. Dig that chocolate chip camo! U.S. Navy Photo...
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Finally paying attention to minting merchies
Besides Annapolis, the Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the Maritime Administration currently supports several four-year schools that produce merchant and USCGR/USNR officers....
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Warship Wednesday, April 15, 2020: The Winged Spinach Can
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Nipping at the heels
Apparently taking the sidelining of the Teddy Roosevelt carrier battlegroup in Guam and the Ronald Reagan group in Japan during the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis as the blood trail of a wounded...
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So long, Whitey
Ohio-born Rear Adm. Edward L. “Whitey” Feightner earned his private pilot license in 1940 just before his 21st birthday and moved to join the Army Air Corps but was told the wait would be upwards of...
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The Partisan Archipelago
April 12, 1945 – “The youngest guerrilla in the Philippines is Ponciano “Sabu'”Arida of Santa Maria, Laguna, Luzon. He is eleven years old and has five Japs to his credit. He is attached to the 1st...
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Green Mountain returns to the Naval List after 100-year hiatus
Below we see USS Vermont, (Battleship # 20), giving her impression of a submarine while underway in heavy seas, circa 1907-1909, possibly during the famous cruise round-the-world sortie of the Great...
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Pitching Clay, or, the ’41 for Freedom’ can fight surfaced, too
USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625) launches a Polaris A-2 SLBM from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Kennedy (Canaveral), Florida on 20 April 1964. The objects flying through the air around the...
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Manhattan’s best
This great overhead image, via Maxar/Overview, shows the Navy’s MSC-manned hospital ship USNS Comfort docked at Pier 90, two piers away from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York harbor....
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Warship Wednesday, April 22, 2020: Freeboard is Overrated, anyway
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Working the Gun Line
USS Beale (DD-471) crewmembers use a fire hose to cool the barrel of the ship’s forward 5″/38 cal gun. Note the jumble of empty shell casings near the gun mount. Possibly taken during Beale’s mid-1966...
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Cry Havoc, and let slip…the LCS?
The 1911 Treasure Island pirates by Wyeth. This month’s USNI’s Proceedings has an interesting piece by COL Mark Cancian, USMC, Ret, entitled, “Unleash the Privateers! The United States should issue...
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Apache Junction
Back at the hottest part of the Iran-Iraq Tanker War in 1987-89, Operation Prime Chance saw Army SOAR Little Birds and OH-58s deploying from FFGs as well as two leased Brown & Root crane barges...
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Last minutes of Saigon, 45 Years Ago today
29 April 1975: As NVA tanks were moving into the city, the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Graham Martin, sent the below telegram to National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, at the White...
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Navy goes FREMM for FF(X), or, Why FFG-62 Smells Like Spaghetti-Os
The great FF(X) competition is over and the assorted conglomerates have been weighed and measured. The losers: Austal USA, GDBIW/Navantia, and Huntington Ingalls. The winner: Fincantieri Marinette...
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Welcome (back), M16A4
The humble original M16 was originally Armalite’s AR-15, and was first ordered for military service with a contract issued to Colt Firearms in May 1962 for the purchase of early Model 01 rifles to be...
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Mighty Mo and O’Ryan’s Roughnecks: Hail, Hail, the Gang’s all here
The original caption of this Underwood and Underwood news service photo received 3 May 1919: U.S.S. Missouri steaming into her berth at Hoboken with last of 27th Division, namely the 106th Machine Gun...
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Warship Wednesday, May 6, 2020: A Ship that Can’t be Licked
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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