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To: BBQToadRibs

No, I am talking about Big Bertha of WWI. They shelled Paris from 75 miles away.


25 posted on 07/25/2019 3:39:37 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Opp, sorry. My bad.


35 posted on 07/25/2019 3:48:42 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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No, the Big Bertha was a massive mortar, nam d after Herr Krupp’s daughter, IIRC.

The he long range gun (75 miles) was the Paris Gun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun


42 posted on 07/25/2019 3:56:02 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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