is there more info about this as troop camo? Admittedly I didn’t look very hard, but the only things I could find were references to naval ships and planes.
Kids: It’s your fault for not performing grueling manual labor 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no worker protections, in the Mojave fuckin Desert, whilst contending with food scarcity, during the Great Depression.
I’m Gen X. It’s amazing when I go back and watch shows and movies from my childhood that had a token fat character in them, because that character looks like an average person today. Look at Chunk from the Goonies. He was considered fat enough to have a nickname like Chunk, but he looks like the majority of kids I see now.
One of the key events that gave the United States the politically-charged push into the war was the sinking of the Lusitania, and it was done by a German u-boat.
Here’s another weird one you didn’t expect: Germans used zeppelins to bomb London.
The very first sinking of a ship by a submarine occurred during the U.S. Civil War, in fact!
Both the Union and Confederacy operated submarines during the war.
The very first U.S. “submarine” was used during the Revolutionary War, but it was more of a one off novelty than a move forward in industrialized war like in the Civil War.
This also happened in conjunction with the rise of ironclads, with the first ironclad vs ironclad battle also occurring in the Civil War.
It never ceases to amaze me just how old the first submarines ever made are/were. They feel like something that shouldn’t even be possible to have been made before the 20th century. Definitely might have to read up on this.
I was originally going to post about the HL Hunley, which was also deployed during the Civil War. It was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship. I got distracted when I came across this submarine while making the post.
The U.S. Civil War was a time of rapid transition from Napoleonic to “modern” war.
Right? I always think of submarines as small and cramped, and while they are certainly cramped, they're not generally small. Lot of machinery goes into those beasts.
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