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Gamma-Gerät and Dicke Bertha

April 13 2008 at 5:48 AM
  (Login McTodd)
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Response to Gamma-Gerät

You may be right about the reason for that Gamma-Gerät surviving. Either way, it was a WW1 weapon which escaped the Allies.

Incidentally, in 'German Heavy Mortars', Joachim Engelmann displays a photo which purports to be of a Dicke Bertha exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

It isn't.

It's actually a full-size wooden model built by Emil Cherubin in 1932. You can see more photos in a piece I contributed to Landships (bottom of the page):
http://www.landships.freeservers.com/42cm_bigbertha.htm

There's a charming little book about Cherubin, 'Die "Dicke Berta" aus Vluynbusch' by Raimund Lorenz. Packed with photos, it also shows that Cherubin built 1/4 scale wooden models of both the Dicke Bertha and the Paris Gun!

 
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  1. Dicke Bertha - Rainer Strasheim on Apr 13, 6:36 AM
    1. Existing Models... - Roger Todd on Apr 13, 7:34 AM
      1. Captures - Rainer Strasheim on Apr 13, 10:09 AM
        1. Captures... - Roger Todd on Apr 24, 6:01 AM
          1. no guns at Villa Huegel - Pat Bierter on May 9, 1:54 AM
            1. "No guns at Villa Huegel" - What!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!? - Roger Todd on May 12, 2:15 PM
     


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