Human history has always been at the mercy of mother nature, and a uniquely human invention- airplanes- are particularly vulnerable to one of the most powerful forces of nature- volcanic eruptions.
The unsung heroes of the naval war in the Western theater weren’t the city class casemate ironclads, but a much larger and more active fleet of more than seventy, much smaller, lightly armored vessels. The “Tinclads” of the US Civil War deserve to be remembered.