Confederate Efforts to Build an Effective Civil War Submarine Drawing designs and constructing prototypes of 1860’s submarines was one thing, but keeping the crew alive was something quite different. The latter was more difficult. The impetus for the Confederate Navy to build an effective Civil War submarine was to aid in Union blockade running. Part …
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Balloon Bomb / World War Two
World War Two is often times considered an event that occurred many miles away from the shores of North America. For the most part this is correct. German U-Boats operated not far off the shores of America and did indeed inflict damage to Allied merchant shipping. The action in the Gulf of Mexico is …