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[Bonnex]

The world is not enough, unless...



Found in a colleagues collection.

 

[pzjgr]

Ahhh, Dora ammo....I saw at least a Dora case years ago at Aberdeen....the gun must have been unbelievable...just a mere 800mm gun!

 

[HAZORD]

It is a crime that none of the guns were preserved.

 

[siegfreid]

Norman . Are you sure that's not 57mm howitzer round with 2 soldiers from Lilliput ? Mike............!!!!!!!

 

[John D. Bartleson Jr.]

Hazord,
Isn't there one of these guns at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. I know they have a shell. Was Anzio Annie this big?
John

 

[pzjgr]

John,

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!

 

[Lou]

I wonder if it had a tracer element,,,,,

 

[Fjordhouse]

Yes it had a tracer, the projectile we have at the Liberty Park in Holland has a tracerunit, Ben

 

[millsbomber]

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oulkZEJLeMw

<<<< Dave

 

[bacarnal]

Hazord,
Isn't there one of these guns at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. I know they have a shell. Was Anzio Annie this big?
John

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 D. Bartleson Jr.]

Okay, I wonder what the connection to Ft. Lee?
John

 

[bacarnal]

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.

 

[HAZORD]

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.