LinkBack URL
About LinkBacksAnyone have any interest in the railway guns used during World War II?
| WW2 General Discuss Railway Guns in the World War II - General forums; Anyone have any interest in the railway guns used during World War II?... |
Anyone have any interest in the railway guns used during World War II?
I want to be the kind of person my cat thinks I am.
I've heard of one called Anzio Annie but that's it
When you realise that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train, you know it's time to run for your life
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.
> I Support Doug Gilliss <
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci
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.
I want to be the kind of person my cat thinks I am.
Ive heard of a German one called the Dora, and a big bad Mother F*cker it was too
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
Heres the Dora... 8
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
Be certain to get lots of good shots while youre there!
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?
I want to be the kind of person my cat thinks I am.
48 rounds in 5 days- that's an incredibly bad rate of fire
When you realise that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train, you know it's time to run for your life
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.
just think of how many King Tigers that would be!
When you realise that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train, you know it's time to run for your life
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.
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII
Do you think they were compensating for something?
When you realise that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an oncoming train, you know it's time to run for your life
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks