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German 52cm-mortar ''Berta''
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The german 52-cm (20,47 inches) mortar ''Berta'' was deployed on the Leningrad front. It was a captured french gun originally. (ftg)
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Navyson, what you mentioned was the "Paris-Geschütz" (Paris gun). The "Dicke Bertha" was not a railroad gun. The "Paris-Geschütz" had a range of 130km (80.78 miles!!!) but a caliber of "only" 21cm (8.27 inches).
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Right, the "Dicke Bertha" (Fat Bertha, mind the different spelling of the name) of WW1 was a different artillery piece. It was a mortar as well but with a smaller caliber of 42cm (16.54 inches). Strasser, the WW2-Berta had a maximum range of 17,5km...
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Wasn't one of the railroad cannons firing on Paris in ww1 called "Big Bertha"?
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I heard once called fat berta,that's the same?
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That's an impressive piece. Ftg, do you know what kind of range these things had?
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I read that Pais gun vas so inacurate, that it was only suitable for targets as big as city. But that was beter than bomb city vith Zepelins