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“Join the Navy” they say, “See the World,” they say…
140813-N-CZ979-005 ARABIAN GULF (Aug. 13, 2014) Sailors clean an F/A-18C Hornet, attached to the Golden Warriors of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS...
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Silent Unseen vet dropping in for a visit
During WWII, a small and little-known unit of Free Polish Army commandos, under the code name Cichociemni (Polish for “Silent, Unseen”) wrecked havoc in occupied Poland. Formed from a group of over...
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The Manly Art
From National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., George Wesley Bellows, Club Night (1907), Oil on canvas, 43 × 53 1/8 in.
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A Thousand Kingfishers can’t be wrong
Back before the days of helicopters, the naval seaplane was king for over-the-horizon spotting. This included missions such as scouting for enemy ships, keeping up with the fleet, picking up those...
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For King and Country
“In Proud Remembrance of the Forty Nine Thousand and Seventy Six of All Ranks of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Who Gave Their Lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914-1918″ Royal Artillery...
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Burma Banshees
(Click to embiggen) Chinese mechanics assemble Curtiss P-40N Warhawks in Rangoon, Burma, 1944. These aircraft belong to the 80th Fighter Group (FG) otherwise known as the “Burma Banshees.” Their...
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The marital art of Ken Riley
Born 1919 in Waverly, Missouri, Kenneth ‘Ken’ Riley is known primary as a ‘cowboy artist.’ This is because some of his best known works were Crow Fair, Split Horn Bonnet, and Legends of the Mandan. As...
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Happy Birthday, USN
As you may know the 239th Birthday of the U.S. Navy (well, technically begun as the Continental Navy) is this week. In the interest of a birthday salute in addition to our regular Warship Wednesday, we...
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Thats an impressive M-1 you got there…
(Filed by James Hutchesnon with the 35th Division on Luzon., Aug 5 1945) Adone Santiago is probably the only soldier in the Philippines who ever cried because he couldn’t go hunting Japanese in the...
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The martial art of Charles Pears, RI, ROI, RSMA
Charles Pears working on an oil painting of ‘R.M.S. Orcades’ Born in the quiet market town of Pontefract, Yorkshire was an Englishman by the name of Charles Pears on 9 Sept. 1873. A professional...
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Idiots’ Delight
Click to big-up Color photograph of the B-17 Flying Fortress “Idiots’ Delight” of Eighth Air Force in England. The original caption states the M/Sgt is Penrose A. Bingham of Reading, Pennsylvania....
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Warship Wednesday October 22, 2014 the Overachieving Gresham
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out 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. - Christopher Eger Warship...
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Karen weapons, a living arms museum at work
Photo by Jason Florio. By the way is that an RPG-2 (made in the PRC of course) or an RPG-7? Jason Florio, perhaps one of the most talented photojournalists in the business, has traveled the globe in...
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Thank you for your service, Corporal Cirillo
The Canadian Prime Minister is calling yesterday’s attack on the National War Memorial and Parliament by a gunman an act of terrorism. The individual was put down like a sick animal by the House of...
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The dragoon’s last stand
Danish dragoon Niels Kjeldsen fighting 14 Prussian hussars, 1864..only he didn’t see the sneaky bugger in the treeline coming up on him with a pistol. By Frants Henningsen, 1901 (Click to big up)...
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Guard, reporting for duty
The National Sentry Program resumed its posting of sentries at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Photo: MCpl Patrick Blanchard, Canadian Forces Combat Camera No word on if their C8 rifles are now...
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The Intrepid Lt. James Collier Buchanan
Many Americans think that, besides the occasional assistance of some random ARVN forces, we fought on our own in Vietnam during the 60s and 70s. Well there were actually thousands of allied feet on the...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 5, Mr. Bond’s Blowpipe-carrying smoke boat
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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Nomad 3521, coming home
The Jack Northrop-designed A-17A was a pre-WWII development of the old Northrop Gamma. Some 411 of the attack planes were produced, each armed with five light machine guns and up to 1200-lbs of bombs...
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So there’s that
Steven Soderberg created a 2-hour long version of Raiders of the Lost Ark….as a silent black and white movie. You have to love any film with Broomhandle Mausers and melting Nazis– even in black and...
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