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Old 03-02-2005, 11:33 AM   #1
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Railway Guns

Anyone have any interest in the railway guns used during World War II?
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I've heard of one called Anzio Annie but that's it
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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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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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Old 03-02-2005, 03:27 PM   #5
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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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Old 03-03-2005, 10:48 AM   #6
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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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Heres the Dora... 8

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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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Be certain to get lots of good shots while youre there!
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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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48 rounds in 5 days- that's an incredibly bad rate of fire
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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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just think of how many King Tigers that would be!
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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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Do you think they were compensating for something?
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