Sunday, March 4, 2012

USS Monitor crewmembers' faces reconstructed
[ Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:01:44 GMT ]

This photo shows a phase of facial reconstruction. In an effort to identify two Civil War sailors recovered from the shipwreck of the USS Monitor, Louisiana State University's FACES Laboratory is working with NOAA to complete forensic facial reconstructions on the two lost men recovered in 2002 by NOAA and the United States Navy. When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber comb was found by one of the remains, a ring was on a finger of the other. Now, thanks to forensic reconstruction, the two have faces.


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