To: kabar
The Monitors carried the big guns and had steel pipe grids mounted on standoffs to act as armor - the pipes would set off the RPGs before they hit the bulkheads. The Zippo boats had flametrowers - thus Zippo after the lighter...
72 posted on
04/11/2011 1:00:31 PM PDT by
Raven6
(The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.)
To: Raven6
flametrowers = flamethrowers
73 posted on
04/11/2011 1:41:43 PM PDT by
Raven6
(The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.)
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