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Nazi Germany’s Mighty “Gustav” Cannon Was the Stuff of Nightmares

Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime were the über-villains of the Second World War. But ...
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Study This Old Photo: Was This Hitler’s Secret Super ‘Gun’?

War trains dominated combat for more than 100 years. Massive railborne artillery shelled the enemy while trains unloaded troops and supplies. For a brief moment, the terrifying machines were the most ...
The National Interest

See This Strange Cannon? It Was Hitler’s Secret Weapon to Crush the Allies

Improvements to tanks, cars and planes during World War II marked the twilight of the war train. The great trains of the First World War still dominated the imagination, however, and the Nazis built ...
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Schwerer Gustav: It's a Really Big Gun

Discover the story of Schwerer Gustav, the massive railway gun built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Learn how it was engineered and why it remains a symbol of extreme military ambition.
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Nazi Germany railway gun, 1949

Woods near Grafenwöhr, Germany, July 24, 1949: 1st Lt. Fred Iovanella stands atop the 800mm caliber barrel of a Nazi Germany railway gun. Although nicknamed “Big Bertha” by the American forces ...