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Navy Husky on Ice
Official caption: Field technicians with the Arctic Submarine Laboratory prepare to remove ice from the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN-767) at Ice Camp Whale on the Beaufort Sea,...
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Storis to Return, Zumwalt Floats, Arkansas Launches
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis during the run for a short-cut Northwest Passage prepares to send helicopters aloft on ice reconnaissance before proceeding eastward through Amundsen Gulf to Dolphin...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral Slugger
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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Unaymit!
80 years ago this month. December 1944. “Unaymit” (White 15), a behemoth Martin PBM-3D Mariner flying boat of the “White Lightnings” of Patrol Bombing Squadron (VPB) 17 refueling on a flat sea around...
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Ward’s Pearl Harbor Gun May Get New Home
USS WARD NH-50261 Mare Island 1918 At 0637 on 7 December 1941, the Wickes-class flush-decker, USS Ward (Destroyer No. 139), was detailed to Pearl Harbor’s Inshore Patrol Command and was on picket duty...
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Sub and Yippy Tie Up
“In a quiet inlet of the Bering Sea, a YP Boat gets a coat of paint and a sub ties up for fuel and provisions. The short Alaskan day is ending and lights may be seen in the barracks until total...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024: Ignore the orders, we will save the Sailors
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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Redfish Amok!
Some 80 years ago today, the Balao-class fleet submarine USS Redfish (SS-395), on only her Second War Patrol, under the command of T/CDR Louis Darby McGregor, Jr., torpedoed and sank the brand...
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Whelp, that’s it for FD2030
In March 2020, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. David H. Berger, debuted his transformative Force Design 2030 which, within a decade, intended to recast the Corps from its traditional expeditionary...
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Anzio Christmas
Original wartime caption: “25 December 1944, somewhere in the Pacific. Christmas night party, decorated tree, and presents aboard the escort carrrier USS Anzio (CVE-57).” U.S. Navy photo in the...
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More on Carney’s Red Sea Getaway
The guided-missile destroyer USS Carney launches land-attack missiles while operating in the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command area of responsibility, Feb. 3, 2024. The Carney was deployed as part of...
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Christmas Eve 1944 off Sandy Hook
80 years ago today, the Cannon-class destroyer escort USS Straub (DE 181), was captured from an altitude of 300 feet, on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1944. She is clad in Measure 32, Design 3D,...
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Welcome Back, Iowa
The fourth U.S. Navy vessel named for the state of Iowa, the future USS Iowa (SSN-797), was delivered to the Navy on 22 December 2024. Commissioning is planned for Spring 2025, to be held in Groton as...
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Warship Wednesday on a Friday Dec. 27, 2024: Taking a Licking
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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SBDs of the Republic
Some 80 years ago today. Between December 13 and 31, 1944 – Cognac (Charente). Maintenance and inspection of a Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber belonging to the 4e flottille de bombardement (4e FB)...
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Little Rock Med New Year Greetings
Happy New Year, gentlemen! From the January 1969 deck log of the Cleveland-class gun cruiser/converted to Galveston-class guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock (CLG-4), a traditional New Year’s Day...
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Fighting Bats
“Training to Fight at Night” at Naval Air Station, Vero Beach, Florida, January 1945. Official U.S. Navy photograph, 80-G-323891, now in the collections of the National Archives. Starting in 1953 and...
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What amazing times…
100 years ago this month. Drawing of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) from the January 1925 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. With a 25-man crew, the airship was designed to carry a half-dozen .30...
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Do you have a Battleship New Jersey 1911?
June 1, 1986. A crewman aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) prepares to fire a shot line from an M-14 rifle to another ship in preparation for an underway replenishment. PH2 Jeff Elliott....
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A ‘full-fledged D-E sailor’
Short Cruise on a Destroyer Escort, By Ernie Pyle: “So now I’m a D-E sailor. Full-fledged one. Drenched from head to foot with salt water. Sleep with a leg crooked around your rack so you won’t fall...
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