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03-02-2005, 11:33 AM
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| Railway Guns Anyone have any interest in the railway guns used during World War II?
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03-02-2005, 11:43 AM
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 | I've heard of one called Anzio Annie but that's it
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03-02-2005, 11:46 AM
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 | There was Anzio Annie and the Anzio Express. I spoke with a veteran recently who was getting fired on by the Anzio Express. He said it was doing some serious damage to the poor guys down on the beaches.
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03-02-2005, 12:27 PM
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| Yes, I spoke with a fellow who was at Anzio and he said they would fire the gun at the same time each day. He said one day it hit their field hospital.
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03-02-2005, 03:27 PM
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 | Ive heard of a German one called the Dora, and a big bad Mother F*cker it was too  |
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03-03-2005, 10:48 AM
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| There where many large calibre guns during ww2 indeed at Dover the British had two winnie and pooh. Anzio had 2 guns Leapold and Robert one of which now resides in the US at Maryland |
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03-03-2005, 10:54 AM
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| Heres the Dora... 8  |
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03-03-2005, 10:57 AM
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| Im of too Duxford hopefully next week I seem to remember theirs a shell from (it may be dora there) I'll get a pic of it and some info |
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03-03-2005, 11:04 AM
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| Be certain to get lots of good shots while youre there!  |
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03-06-2005, 03:36 PM
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| The limited information I have on Dora says it's only combat action was at Sevastopol, firing 48 rounds at 7 targets in 5 days. It also says Dora was seen outside Warsaw in 1944 and then vanished. I have a few seconds of film of a Gerat 040 Karl-Morser 600 mm caliber heavy mortar firing on Warsaw during the uprising. I wonder if that's what they are thinking of when they say it was seen outside Warsaw?
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03-06-2005, 03:39 PM
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| 48 rounds in 5 days- that's an incredibly bad rate of fire
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03-06-2005, 07:23 PM
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| The Dora or schwere Gustav, is a demential gun. Expend 1330 metric tons of good steel in a single cannon, show that some nazi generals and technicians where not in his right mind. |
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03-06-2005, 07:29 PM
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| just think of how many King Tigers that would be!
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03-06-2005, 07:36 PM
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| The Germans had a thing for big guns though. They used a range of heavies at Verdun which had little effect of the French forts but were of massive psychological importance to the German command.
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03-06-2005, 07:41 PM
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| Do you think they were compensating for something?
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