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To: doc1019
But they were the first to use slanted hulls (causing shells fired at them to be deflected}, thus, an original idea. The slanted hull eventually became the standard in all future tanks

C.S.S. Merrimac, 1862


19 posted on 08/16/2011 10:40:44 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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Nice picture of CSS Virginia.


41 posted on 08/18/2011 7:31:03 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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