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Mines: Still a Thing Even as USN’s MCM Force Fades
Deployed to the Baltic, Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1) just found a cluster of old Russian M/12 moored pendulum contact mines laid in 1917 along Parnu Bay on the Estonian coast....
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Mighty Mansfield
56 Years Ago Today: Sumner-class destroyer USS Mansfield (DD 728) letting rip her 5″/38 DP Naval Guns at water-borne craft off the coast of North Vietnam, north of the demilitarized zone. Photographed...
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So I went to see Devotion…
I weighed in last week on the behind-the-scenes attention to detail of the new J. D. Dillard/Erik Messerschmidt Sony Pictures war biopic Devotion, focusing on the too-short life of Ens. Jesse Leroy...
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First Antarctic Pistol Tournament
The Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10), earlier this month departed to support the annual joint military service mission called Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF), a...
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NATO Flattop Interoperability
In the Med last week, three very different NATO Carrier Strike Groups got some important joint exercises while underway in the Ionian Sea. The ANTARES/Mare Aperto 22-2 exercise saw the George H.W....
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022: Crescent City Blues
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Seabee Technical
30 years ago this month: Members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FORTY (NMCB 40)’s Air Detail drive through the streets of Mogadishu shortly after their arrival in Somalia, December 1992. Dig...
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Texan Warming Up
80 Years Ago: A North American SNJ-4 Texan trainer aircraft warms up. The photograph was released on December 5, 1942. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National...
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Many Hands Make Light Work
An important milestone occurred this weekend across 45 minutes on a humid and foggy Saturday morning for the Biloxi National Cemetery. The unit, which honors well over 17,000 of the nation’s veterans...
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Snoozing in class
Original Press Photo, dated December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows a class of Bluejackets as they train to become part of a water-cooled M2 .50-caliber Browning AAA gun...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec.7, 2022: Pearl Harbor D+365
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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USS Arizona on the way
In probably the best commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the one-sided attack at Pearl Harbor, Electric Boat held a ceremony to lay the keel for the future Virginia-class attack boat USS Arizona...
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Christmas Scene in Mallorca, or Maybe Not
What a great Cold War image! The GUPPY’d fleet boats USS Sirgao (Tench-class Guppy II) (SS-485) and USS Piper (Balao-class Fleet Snorkel) (SS-409) and the Cleveland/Galveston-class cruiser USS Little...
View ArticlePlumbing the Archives (and finding some gems!)
While I spend a lot of time digging through various archives, a new one is proving interesting. While the Associated Press’s video news archive on YouTube has been around since 2015 and has chalked up...
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And Pass the Ammunition
Original caption: “Seaman Barrett C. Benson who was a Methodist minister with two churches at Dalton and LaFayette, Georgia, saw the men of his churches going off to war…Deciding to follow them, he...
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Deck The P-Ways!
Naval Base San Diego just held their annual Christmas decoration contest and the ships, as always, look great. Surely some of these images will be celebrated by generations not yet born as icons of...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022: A Multinational Effort
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Swanky Franky Coming Home
In December of 1956, the crew of the Midway-class “Attack Aircraft Carrier”USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) assembled on the ship’s flight deck to send holiday greetings to the world. As noted by...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022: Spyron
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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80 Years Ago: Essex, Arriving
In perhaps the most welcomed addition to any fleet, ever, some 80 years ago today on New Year’s Eve 1942, the U.S. Navy changed the status of USS Essex (CV-9) to “in commission.” The brand-new USS...
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