And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Schwerer Gustav, built too late to bombard the Maginot Line but used on the Russian front. During WWI, the US Navy deployed railway guns in France that used 14" naval guns. The German "Paris Gun" in WWI could send a shell 76 miles. Al_in_Ottawa
29 miles?
ReplyDeleteBut not very accurately.
ReplyDelete800mm bore if I remember right.
ReplyDeleteThe Schwerer Gustav, built too late to bombard the Maginot Line but used on the Russian front. During WWI, the US Navy deployed railway guns in France that used 14" naval guns. The German "Paris Gun" in WWI could send a shell 76 miles.
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Große Worte für jemanden, der 47 Kilometer entfernt ist..
ReplyDeleteWell Krupp that
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