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To: yarddog

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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To: Ancesthntr

Thanks. I read some where that the Paris gun’s shells were the first man made object to enter space.


45 posted on 07/25/2019 3:59:18 PM PDT by yarddog
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