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    Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as...
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    QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss, later shortened to the QF 6-pounder guns. Schwerer Gustav was a German super heavy railway gun developed in the late 1930s. It...
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    deployed – seven examples built, six seeing combat 1941–45. Schwerer Gustav (Heavy Gustav) – an 800mm railway gun, the largest artillery piece ever used...
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    largest-calibre guns ever built, having a larger calibre than both of Germany's Schwerer Gustav and Dora which were 31.5-inch (800 mm) railway guns. The mortar was...
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  • Monsieur Gustav H., a leading character in The Grand Budapest Hotel Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, dubbed "the Gustav" by US soldiers Schwerer Gustav, 800-mm...
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  • cruiser” would have been a self-propelled platform for the 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) gun artillery piece also made by Krupp—the heaviest artillery...
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    several artillery regiments, one of which included the railway gun Schwerer Gustav.[citation needed] Another attack on 17 December was repulsed at the...
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    self-propelled mortars (Thor, Odin, and one other) and one 800 mm gun (Schwerer Gustav), delivering 1.4 and 7 ton shells, respectively, and capable of destroying...
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    northern France. Big Bertha (howitzer) M65 Atomic Annie gun Paris Gun Schwerer Gustav List of the largest cannons by caliber Notes "Krupp K5 (Anzio Annie)...
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    reached with the German Schwerer Gustav gun, a huge 80 cm (31 in) caliber railway gun, built during early World War II. Schwerer Gustav was initially intended...
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