Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the...
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Big Bertha is a euphonious term for an unusually large example of a class of object; notable examples include: Big Bertha (howitzer), a heavy mortar-like...
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the famous German Big Bertha howitzer and has been used for two Texas bass drums, with the second debuting in 2022. Both Big Berthas have laid claim to...
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The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer. The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. At the time, its design was considered...
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the APK, who addressed mobility in the development of the M-Gerät "Big Bertha" howitzer by pulling it with tractors. The Gamma-Gerät was the largest and...
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phases of the war, the Germans employed a 420 mm (17 in) Krupp howitzer (the Big Bertha) and two 305 mm (12.0 in) Skoda Mörser M. 11 mortars to reduce...
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and World War II. During the First World War, huge siege guns such as Big Bertha were designed to see use against the modern fortresses of the day. The...
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at the Batterie Todt museum, near Audinghen in northern France. Big Bertha (howitzer) M65 Atomic Annie gun Paris Gun Schwerer Gustav List of the largest...
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"super-heavy siege howitzers". Weapons of this category include the famous Big Bertha of the German Army and the 15-inch (381 mm) howitzer of the British...
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most of the fort's occupants. The event marked the debut of the Big Bertha howitzer in combat. Relatively few of the dead were recovered; the site is...
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Bertha for the World War I howitzer known as Big Bertha. Women named Bertha include: Saint Bertha of Kent (539 – c. 612), Queen of Kent Saint Bertha of...
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Haubitze M. 14/16 7.7 cm FK 16 7.7 cm FK 96 9 cm Feldkanone M 75/96 Big Bertha (howitzer) Paris Gun Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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Naval gun (?)1877 (?) United Kingdom (?)Elswick Ordnance Company 420 Big Bertha Howitzer 1910s German Empire Krupp 12 made; used in combat; none survive...
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reported in the spring of 1915 that Gathmann invented the German 42-cm Big Bertha howitzer, and that these plans were subsequently stolen from the U.S. Patent...
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Apollo program, behind Big Muley and Great Scott. Big Bertha was named after the famous large World War I German howitzer Big Bertha because it was the largest...
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artillery, including thirty-two 21 cm mortars and two German 42 cm Big Bertha howitzers. Due to faulty planning of the protection of the underground defence...
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Geschütz" ("Kaiser Wilhelm Gun"), they were often confused with Big Bertha, the German howitzer used against Belgian forts in the Battle of Liège in 1914;...
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Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 (category World War I howitzers)
of World War I. They were used in concert with the Krupp 42 cm howitzer ("Big Bertha") to destroy the rings of Belgian fortresses around Liege (Battle...
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four 420 mm (17 in) Big Bertha howitzers (not to be confused with the later Paris Gun), four Austrian 205 mm (8.1 in) howitzers, five 305 mm (12.0 in)...
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U-boats, battleships, howitzers, trains, railway guns, machine guns, cars, tanks, and much more. Krupp produced the Tiger I tank, Big Bertha and the Paris Gun...
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Austria had given to Deutsches Kaiserreich when WWI started and 420 mm Big Bertha howitzers, firing from beyond the range of the forts' guns. The contest was...
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artillery) 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...
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German inventory, including the 42 centimeters (17 in) Dicke Bertha (Big Bertha), a howitzer that was more than 50 times the weight of the sMW. The value...
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mobile warfare situations, generally having been superseded by heavy howitzers (towed and self-propelled artillery), strategic bomber aircraft, surface-to-surface...
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television character Fat Albert. Big Bertha, who shoots the Professor in Bender's body, was also the name of a German Howitzer during World War I. "The Prisoner...
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and the time signal throughout World War I, even though the German howitzer Big Bertha was targeted on the nominal co-ordinates of Paris, the location of...
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factor in modern combat. The following list of artillery cover guns, howitzers, mortars, and other large projectile weapons. Small arms and missiles...
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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...
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equipped with 30.5 cm (Skoda M1911 howitzers lent by Austria, with a range of 9.6 kilometers) and 42 cm (the Big Bertha, range 10 km) caliber guns, with...
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addressed. Perhaps influenced by the success of the German's Big Bertha 420 mm (17 in) howitzer at the Belgian forts at Liège, Namur, and Antwerp and the...
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