| It may have sunk into (anoxic) muck and been relatively protected from oxidation in the same way that swords and other artifacts are preserved for hundreds of years in bogs.
 I wish I had found that tank.
 
				__________________"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
 
 "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in  the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:  but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream  with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
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