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The nickname "Big Bertha" appeared early in the war, when German soldiers named the guns Dicke Berta at the Battle of Liège, a reference to Bertha Krupp, who had inherited the Krupp works from her father. The name spread to German newspapers and then to Allied troops as "Big Bertha" and became slang for all heavy German artillery, but ...
Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact. ABC-Clio. ISBN 9781851095612. Romanych, Marc & Rupp, Martin (2013). 42cm "Big Bertha" and German Siege Artillery of World War I. Illustrated by Henry Morshead. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78096-017-3. Romanych, Marc & Rupp, Martin (2020). World War II German Super-Heavy Siege Guns. Illustrated ...
German Big Bertha howitzer The Paris Gun being assembled Model of the Paris Gun on fixed mounting. A section of the Iraqi supergun from Imperial War Museum Duxford. With the new metallurgical methods and precision engineering of the Industrial Revolution, a revolution in armaments, including artillery took place.
The largest French gun produce by Schneider of France the Obusier de 520 modèle 1916, a 20-inch (520 mm) railway "Fort Buster" to do what the German 16.53-inch Big Bertha had done at the outbreak of World War I and reduce the German forts in the final line of German defenses. One was destroyed in trials and the other did not complete firing ...
Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm). This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being practically ...
"Big Bertha" in the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator. [20] A parody of the Paris Gun appears in the Charlie Chaplin movie The Great Dictator. [21] Firing at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the "Tomanians" (the fictional country that represented Germany) succeed in blowing up a small outhouse.
The gun's shells had to punch through seven metres of reinforced concrete or one full metre of steel armour plate, from beyond the range of French artillery. [7] Krupp engineer Erich Müller calculated that the task would require a weapon with a calibre of around 80 centimetres (31 in), firing a projectile weighing seven tonnes (15,000 lb) from ...
Batterie Pommern World War I 380 mm gun; Siege artillery. Big Bertha 420 mm howitzer; Paris Gun World War I 210 mm gun; Mortars. 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer; Field Artillery. 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 WWI era 105 mm howitzer; 10.5 cm leFH 16 WWI era 105 mm howitzer