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Offline Scotty55OEFVet

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2011, 08:37:08 PM »
Anzio Annie was I think a 580mm Railgun that the Germans used against the Allied Beachhead at Anzio. It may have even been a 280mm gun but look up Anzio Annie and itll show ya. I copied this from a page that had a model of the gun and all I can find on Wiki is Krupp K5 which just talks about the guns built...

"Anzio Annie" was the name of the German railroad gun that was used against the American troops during the amphibious landings at Anzio, Italy during World War II.   The huge 28cm gun fired 550 lb. shells up to 60 kilometers, and our troops never did destroy, or in any way cripple Annie.   The German artillerymen put Anzio Annie out of commission.   Today, it can be seen at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum, Aberdeen MD.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2011, 09:01:07 PM »
Aberdeen as in Scotland?
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« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2011, 10:29:40 PM »
MD=Maryland lol...US.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2011, 11:55:30 AM »
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« Reply #19 on: July 31, 2011, 12:18:32 PM »
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2011, 01:04:02 PM »
Quote from: B-17 on July 30, 2011, 09:01:07 PM
Aberdeen as in Scotland?

Paris is in Texas.
London is in Texas.
Moscow is in Texas.



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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #21 on: July 31, 2011, 04:26:52 PM »
Quote from: Seanaldinho on July 30, 2011, 06:51:03 PM
Bet you have a hell of a time trying to parrallel park that...

      Just park it where ever you stop...who's going to argue with it?  :D
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2011, 07:19:50 PM »
Quote from: AWwrgwy on July 31, 2011, 01:04:02 PM
Paris is in Ontario.
London is in Ontario.
Moscow is in Ontario.

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #23 on: July 31, 2011, 10:08:23 PM »
There's a Moscow in Ontario??
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #24 on: July 31, 2011, 10:17:33 PM »
In Soviet Russia, place names *you*.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2011, 03:35:29 AM »
Quote from: Rino on July 31, 2011, 04:26:52 PM
      Just park it where ever you stop...who's going to argue with it?  :D

The more important question is if anyone argues with it, what can they DO about it?

Short of the Grand Slam, a MOAB, or nuclear weapons, theres not a whole lot they can do about it.
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« Reply #26 on: August 01, 2011, 10:19:27 AM »
Quote from: B-17 on July 31, 2011, 10:08:23 PM
There's a Moscow in Ontario??

# Pop. 65. In Lennox and Addington Cs. on C. Rd. 6, 27 km. NW of Kingston.
# The place was settled in 1824 by Jacob and Elijah Huffman and frrst known as Huffman Settlement. In 1854 the name was changed to Springfield, but there was postal confusion with similarly-named places.
# The same year the name was changed to Moscow to commemorate Napoleon's retreat from the Russian city in 1812.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2011, 10:23:33 AM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on August 01, 2011, 10:19:27 AM
# Pop. 65. In Lennox and Addington Cs. on C. Rd. 6, 27 km. NW of Kingston.
# The place was settled in 1824 by Jacob and Elijah Huffman and frrst known as Huffman Settlement. In 1854 the name was changed to Springfield, but there was postal confusion with similarly-named places.
# The same year the name was changed to Moscow to commemorate Napoleon's retreat from the Russian city in 1812.

Thanks!

Quote from: Tank-Ace on August 01, 2011, 03:35:29 AM
The more important question is if anyone argues with it, what can they DO about it?

Short of the Grand Slam, a MOAB, or nuclear weapons, theres not a whole lot they can do about it.

A couple of 500 lb-ers could probably give it a bit of a punch :aok
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2011, 01:45:58 PM »
oh sure, if they were direct hits, then yeah.  500lbs of HE is enough to destroy just about anything short of reinforced concrete. But a near miss is just going to dent it at most. Even the KingTiger is a biotch to kill with a 500lber.
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Quote from: Arlo on April 28, 2014, 06:25:38 PM
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2011, 12:03:07 AM »
Gustav

it took 200hundred men 2weeks to set it up to fire ONCE

and an ENTIRE FLAK BATTALION to defend it
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