RIMPAC on parade
A parade of modern naval architecture underway in the bright blue of the Pacific, showing off some 23 ships and submarines! The great formation PHOTOEX captured on the below 5~ minute video shows off...
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Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s Raiders had a famed “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo” in 1942 when his 16 U.S. Army Air Force B-25 medium bombers were carried to within 600 miles of the Japanese Home Islands by the...
View Article“The long and bitter struggle…”
Official caption: “Victory Carving-First Division Marines on Okinawa gather around Corporal John Dulin as he wields a Japanese samurai sword to cut a VJ cake that he baked for the celebration. That...
View ArticleYamamoto’s giant realized
“Seaman Paul Gray rides a Japanese bicycle in Tokyo, Japan. Photographed by Lieutenant Wayne Miller, September 1945.” National Archives Photo 80-G-473728 (TR-15480)
View Article75 Years Ago: The What-the-Hell! pennant
“What-the-Hell!” pennant. Used by Naval Group China, during World War II. Collection of Vice Admiral Milton E. Miles, USN. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. NH 92737-KN (Color)...
View ArticleOf Munro and Blackjacks
The 418-foot Legend-class Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755), one of four stationed at Alameda, this week returned home after a 3-month multi-mission patrol that included both spending 37 days in the...
View ArticleStinger over Inchon, 70 Years Ago
Vought F4U-4B Corsair #306 of fighter squadron VF-113 (“Stingers”) flies over U.S. ships at Inchon, South Korea, on 15 Sep 1950, during the largest amphibious assault since WWII. The battleship USS...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020: Haida Maru
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...
View ArticleGrenadier found
USS Grenadier (SS-210) Off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 27 December 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 99403 Commissioned 1...
View ArticleSpelunking, occupation edition
75 years ago today. Official caption: “Japanese Kairyu Type Midget submarine outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside, 22 September 1945.” The men alongside it are from the...
View Article60 Years Ago Today: Welcome Aboard, Big E
View of the christening of the world’s largest warship at the time as well as the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020: Avalanche, Darby, Husky & Fritz
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...
View ArticleBattery Free
Official caption: The crew of medium endurance cutter USCGC Northland (WMEC-904) conducts a live firing of the MK 75 76mm weapons system while underway, September 20, 2020, in the Atlantic Ocean. The...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020: U-Boat Hat Trick
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...
View ArticleWelcome back, USS Constellation
I am a sucker for naval tradition and, while 20th Century frigates/destroyer escorts were named either for small towns (see Asheville– and Tacoma-classes) or heroes that are often otherwise forgotten...
View ArticleSpread Your Wings…
While EVH wasn’t a vet, Van Halen did produce what was the best low-key recruiting video of 1986 with Dreams, filmed in conjunction with the Blue Angels during that odd 12-year period between the F4...
View ArticleVictory At Sea: 245 Years
A 13 October 1775 resolution of the Continental Congress established what is now the United States Navy with “a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of...
View ArticleFish don’t vote
Bushnell American Turtle submarine, 1777 (LOC LC-USZ62-110384) American submarines, from the very start, were named after aquatic/marine animals. For instance, David Bushnell’s Turtle of Revolutionary...
View ArticleFed Ex’ing a PBRON
During the late 19th Century and early 20th, attaching a flotilla of small torpedo boats to repurposed old warship such as a monitor– ideal for their low freeboard– was the standard operating...
View ArticleOne of these things is not like the other…or is it?
U.S. Navy destroyers and torpedo boats at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, prior to World War I, between mid-1908 and early 1914. The original photograph was published on a tinted postcard by...
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