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An Albion & Bulwark-sized hole in the RN’s Sealift
Between 1982 and 2017, the Royal Navy’s amphibious forces enjoyed a renaissance. Saved from a planned gutting by the Falklands operation, the capability was preserved– and even enhanced– for a 35-year...
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Yankee Brandt 60
Some 81 years ago this month, January 1954, Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina, members of the newly-formed 5e BPVN (5e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens) of Groupe d’Opération Nord-Ouest (GONO),...
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Curious Airborne Puffer Fish
Captured 80 years ago this month. Official wartime caption: “Japanese balloon, Fu-Go [Fugu, 河豚; 鰒; フグ]. A completed Japanese balloon is inflated for laboratory tests at a California base. It was...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025: Gallant Gussi
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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M2 Days in Chad
45 years ago this week. 22 February 1980. Opération Tacaud. Chad. “Batha,” a M101A1 (M2) 105mm howitzer in action during a live-fire exercise by 2ème batterie, 11e régiment d’artillerie de marine...
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Zouaves and surfboats!
From Osprey’s upcoming title, American Civil War Amphibious Tactics, by Ron Field, illustrated by Steve Noon: Hawkins’ Zouaves At Hatteras Inlet, August 28, 1861 Elements of the 9th New York Infantry,...
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Rolling Bones
80 years ago. Awaiting removal of a roadblock on the road to Eisfeld, Germany, a 90mm GMC M36 tank destroyer crew whiles away the time shooting craps. 28th Infantry Division (“Keystone”), U.S. Third...
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Revolutionary War Company Madness
The 700 British regulars under Lt. Col (later MG) Francis Smith that sortied out of Boston to Lexington and Concord some 250 years ago this month did so in a bewildering array of units. Smith’s force...
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Drones Give and Take in Unusual Ways These Days
A few interesting stories that help add color to what warfare is in 2025. In Poland, Soldiers of the 15th Giżycko “Zawiszy Czarnego” Mechanized Brigade have been “testing new technologies for MEDEVAC...
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Chopping it up along the Verde Trail
It happened 80 years ago. 8 May 1945. Caballero Mountains, Luzon. While peace of a sort had come to Europe, WWII continued to roar in the Pacific. Here we see a M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage...
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