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The million-mile Iron Nickle
During the 1950s and 60s, the amphibs of the gator navy, tasked with hauling Marines from place to place, were either ships that crashed their open front bows on the beach ala WWII style (LSTs),...
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Warship Wednesday April 8, 2015: The Mud Lump Picket Gang
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The SBX Sucks
The LA Times took a really hard and in-depth look into the super expensive, super innovative Sea-Based X-Band Radar and what they found was not good: If North Korea launched a sneak attack, the...
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The fuzzy salty sea dogs of the California
Pretty groovy disco-era (post-Vietnam) doc on the (then) brand-new USS California (CGN-36) and her CPOs. The Big Cali was a huge 11,000-ton nuke cruiser from the golden age of the atomic surface Navy...
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Warship Wednesday April 15, 2015: Big Jean and the Boston Brawler
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Break out the holystone
Today’s bluejackets have to worry about modern 21st century problems while underway such as flakey internet signals, running out of pop, broken exercise equipment, 1980s tech in the CIC, chicken...
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The Indy on the ocean floor
I’ve long been a fan of the cruiser-hulled light carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) and her class on the blog. She was rushed into service when the Pacific Fleet was whittled down to almost a single...
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Drone vs Ranger
Former super-carrier USS Ranger, being towed from US west coast to Texas, around the tip of South America where she will be scrapped, halted tow in Balboa to refuel the tow boats. That’s when a local...
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Warship Wednesday April 22, 2015: The Music City wingman
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The United States Navy as of April 2015
Not a bad representation. Click to very much big up, its 12000×8000
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Doolittle redux
With the focus in the past week or so on the retired super-carrier USS Ranger (CV-61) and the Doolittle Raiders, I figured this was a neat tie-in. The restored World War II B-25 Mitchell bomber...
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Last walk of the half-century old Polaris subs…
Back in the darkest days of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy ran the “41 for Freedom” program which put an amazing 41 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines of the George Washington, Ethan Allen,...
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76 Years ago today
Click to big up. Note the Empire State Building in the skylne Battleships of the New York-class, USS New York and USS Texas, in New York City during the New York World’s Fair, 3 May 1939. The two...
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Good luck flying through that
Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of Yontan airfield, on Okinawa. In the foreground are Marine F4U Corsair fighter planes of the “Hell’s...
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Happy Freedom Day
Image credit: NASA/MSFC. REF: LOD 61C-884 (MIX FILE). Click to big up. 54 years ago today: May 5, 1961 – CDR (later RADM) Alan Bartlett “Al” Shepard, Jr. became the second person and the first American...
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Warship Wednesday May 6, 2015: The unsinkable battleship of Manila Bay
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Aegis cruiser skipper keelhauled for having real goat in the goatlocker
The Navy, and goats, just go together. When I was 13, the coach of my youth soccer team was a Naval Academy ringknocker (and the captain of the Aegis cruiser USS Princeton’s PCU that was being built at...
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I400 Hangar found, 2300-feet down
We’ve talked about the I-400 and her sister the 401, Japan’s underwater aircraft carriers in past Warship Wednesdays. These lurking submarine sneak attack leviathans could tote a few seaplanes and, it...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : And we have more Mort!
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Why throw it away?
Until the Iowa-class battleships joined the fleet during World War II with their powerful Mark 7 guns, the 16″/45 (40.6 cm) Mark 6 was the biggest and best that the U.S. Navy had to offer. An...
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