Word: buckskins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...