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Yankee Sub Chasers Walking the Beat
Official caption, February 1919: “American troops in Fiume, Hungary [today Rijeka, Croatia], aboard a Yankee ‘Submarine Chaser.’ In the harbor of Fiume, members of [the] 332nd U.S. Infantry, stationed...
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Big Al Gets New Deck
The USS Alabama Museum has been working on replacing the ship’s original, but dangerously deteriorating, teak decking for the past three years– and the $8 million project is now complete. As noted by...
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Reading Material
A list of yearly magazine subscriptions for the Gato-class fleet boat USS Drum (SS-228), circa 1944, numbering 16 titles, two copies each, for a cost– “less clubbing discount”– of $58. While some...
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The Elusive Navy MK2 7.62 NATO Garand (not so Elusive for now)
While upwards of 6 million M1 Garand rifles were produced between 1936 and 1957, almost all of these were .30-06 models made under Army (War Department) contract and then filtered out through the U.S....
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Warship Wednesday, July 3, 2024: Brace for Ramming
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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Mandatory Fun, 1944 Kodiak Island edition
Coming off of the long Independence Day weekend (I hope you got four days of downtime, my friends!) I thought this view of how the “Eight Ballers” of the 8th Special Naval Construction (Seabee)...
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Never more beautiful
Some 90 years ago today, we see the brand spanking new New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Astoria (CA-34) entering Honolulu harbor during her shakedown cruise, on 9 July 1934. Photographed by Tai...
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Morphing from PTs to PTFs (and a visit with PTF-26)
The Navy went big on Motor Torpedo Boat (PT) models in World War II, producing an amazing 690 PT boats between 7 December 1941, and 1 October 1945— and that’s not counting the early PT-1 through PT-9...
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Warship Wednesday, July 10, 2024: Priceless Cargo
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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Chinese Navy Inside US EEZ in Bearing Sea, again
A Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crewmember observing a foreign vessel in the Bering Sea, September 19, 2022. (USCG Photo) Looks like the frigate-sized (but not frigate-armed) USCGC Kimball (WMSL 756) has...
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
In a follow-up to my post on Tuesday visiting the Vietnam-era Osprey class fast patrol boat PTF-26 dockside in Mobile, here is a look around the top of the Bay taken on the same day. Of note, I was...
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The Sting of Crossing the Line
How about this great series of shots taken on the Essex-class fleet carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) as her crew passed the equator some 80 years ago today, 11 July 1944. All of these are official U.S. Navy...
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The World’s Leading Distributor of MiG Parts
While Naval Aviators– Phantom drivers of VF-21 from the carrier USS Midway— shot down the first MiGs in air-to-air combat over Southeast Asia when they splashed a pair of two North Vietnamese MiG-17s...
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Live in Baldwin County, Alabama? Have a DD-214? The Armed Forces Honor Guard...
Their main duty station is the Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Spanish Fort and since 2017, when the Armed Forces Honor Guard of Baldwin County started with just nine original members,...
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Mighty Miss
80 Years Ago Today: New Mexico-class super dreadnaught by Great War standards (or slow battleship by WWII standards) USS Mississippi (BB-41), underway in Puget Sound, Washington, July 13th, 1944, at 3...
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Warship Wednesday, July 17, 2024: Under Four Flags
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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Racing Stripes in the South China Sea
How about this for “the way of the world” in 2024? Below you have a bilateral U.S.-Philippine search and rescue exercise conducted on 16 July between the U.S. Coast Guard Bethoff-class cutter USCGC...
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Good Morning, Guam!
In this great Kodachrome, we see the superdreadnought USS New Mexico (Battleship No. 40) is seen firing her after 14″/50 guns during the Operation Stevedore pre-invasion bombardment of Guam, circa...
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Roses and Beantown
Some 80 years ago this week, a great view of the brand-new U.S. Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Pasadena (CL-65) snapped from a Squadron ZP-11 blimp while underway off Boston at 1400 hrs on 21...
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All Hands, Bury the Dead
So this slow-motion funeral happened this week: Official caption: “Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam residents watch as the decommissioned amphibious assault ship ex-USS Tarawa (LHA 1), is escorted out...
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