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The Final Homecoming
18 May 1994: As dependents and relatives walk from the pier, the guided missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG-60) gets underway from Naval Station Staten Island to take part in the 50th anniversary...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024: A Tough Tambor
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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That’s One Smoking Jeep Carrier
80 years ago today. The war diary for the Bogue-class escort carrier USS Altamaha (CVE-18), 1 March 1944: F6F-3 Hellcat getting ready for a jet-assisted take-off from the escort carrier USS Altamaha...
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Stirring Cold Fighting Images
How about this great shot of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) arriving in Harstad, Norway, for a port visit in support of Steadfast Defender 24? Note her patriotic...
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What a Dazzling Balao
How about this great series of photos of the brand new Balao-class diesel-electric fleet submarine USS Tilefish (SS-307) off Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 March 1944, USN photos # 1434-44 through...
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Warship Wednesday, March 13, 2024: SEAL Time Capsule
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to 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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The Yin-Yang of Pacific PBY Life
Two shots captured two very different moments in time some 80 years ago this month. First, I give you the typical image when someone says, “PBY Catalina ‘Somewhere in the Pacific.” U.S. Navy mechanics...
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And in Submarine News…
Lots of stuff for those interested in periscopes lately. New Dutch Boats The Dutch, eschewing a domestic(ish) submarine-making initiative between Sweden’s Saab Kockums and Damen, and opting not to go...
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BB-45 on the showroom floor
Some 103 years ago today: The future USS Colorado (Battleship No. 45) stern view, previous to launching by New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J., 21 March 1921. Library of Congress Photo...
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Big J Underway
Just in case you missed it, the museum ship USS New Jersey (BB-62) this week left her pier at Camden, where she has sat for the past 30 years, headed down the Delaware River on her way to dry docking...
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Tico Updates
For the past five months, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKECSG) has been in the Middle East under CENTCOM control where it has been neck deep in swatting away Houthi anti-ship...
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Happy Birthday, Dolphins
One of the toughest badges to earn, the Submarine Warfare Insignia, aka the “dolphins” or “fish,” is also one of the Navy’s oldest warfare devices, having been adopted 100 years ago this week. As...
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Warship Wednesday, March 27, 2024: That Time a Jeep Carrier Airshipped an...
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DESRON 15 Flex
Check out this great formation image of three Burkes— two Flight IIA (USS Ralph Johnson & USS Howard) and one Flight II (USS Higgins)– taken by a fourth (USS Dewey). 240324-N-CD453-1209 PHILIPPINE...
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Contracts: You can walk on the Sonobuoys and Harriers Get Support to 2029
A few interesting things in yesterday’s DOD contract announcements. Emphasis mine: Sparton De Leon Springs LLC, De Leon Springs, Florida, is awarded a $106,391,400 firm-fixed-price,...
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White 35, in full Color
Check out this original Kodachrome, taken some 80 years ago today, of LT(JG) George T. Glacken and his gunner, Aviation Radioman Second Class Leo W. Boulanger, in their Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive...
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Koruniat and Ndrilo Island April Fools
USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) late 1944 with PT boats alongside At the end of March/first of April 1944, some 80 years ago, the fighting motor torpedo boat tender USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), with the Elco-made...
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Fleeting beauty
Some 80 years ago today, the magnificence of the brand-new Fletcher-class destroyer USS Leutze (DD-481), seen off her birthplace– the Puget Sound Navy Yard– on 2 April 1944. She wears Camouflage...
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Vale, Lou Conter
Born in September 1921 in Ojibwa, Wisconsin, Louis Anthony Conter enlisted in the Navy in November 1939 and, after training at RS San Diego, boarded his first ship– the mighty Pennsylvania-class...
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Warship Wednesday, April 3, 2024: The Bathtub of Sampson, Schley, and Sims
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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