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Aberdeen has (had? not sure if it is still there...) a K5 railway gun, which is just measly 280mm gun....I know I remember seeing a 80cm case at Aberdeen, but I forget if they had a projectile too...
The K5 (Anzio Annie) was pretty impressive....the Dora Gerat dwarfed them!
i see once a scale model of the gun that fired the said items in the picture, it is massive, from what i can remember it needed 2 rail tracks wide to move and a crew of 150 plus railway staff.
John, Anzio Annie, aka Leopold, was shipped in several loads to Ft. Lee about a year and a half ago. I THINK there is still a Dora shell at Aberdeen, but I haven't been there in over a year, and things there were fluid. Cheers, Bruce.
John, that's where they moved the Ordnance School and Command. When they closed Monmouth, Communications was BRAC'd to Aberdeen and Ordnance to Lee, along with the Ordnance Museum. The Museum at Aberdeen is now (or will be) the Communications Museum with a bunch of tanks and artillery pieces parked around it. Confusing, but there ya have it. Cheers, Bruce.
It seems like I heard somewhere that the Dora case was displayed outdoors, and due to acid rain, etc. and it being steel, that it was a rustball years ago.
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