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One of the K5 guns at Anzio being loaded by its crew, May 1944. An artilleryman aims one of the K5 guns at Anzio, May 1944. The K5 was the result of a crash program launched in the 1930s to develop a force of railway guns to support the Wehrmacht by 1939.
The train carrying the gun was of 25 cars, a total length of 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi). The gun reached the Perekop Isthmus in early March 1942, where it was held until early April. The Germans built a special railway spur line to the Simferopol-Sevastopol railway 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of the target. At the end of the spur, they built four ...
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A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval artillery, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially designed railway wagon. Many countries have built railway guns, but the best-known are the large Krupp -built pieces used by Germany in World War I and World War II .
8-inch M1888 gun United States: World War I, World War II: 203 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun (aka M3A2) United States: World War II: 209.3 21 cm SK "Peter Adalbert" German Empire: World War I: 210 21 cm K12 (E) Nazi Germany: World War II 233 BL 9.2 inch Railway Gun United Kingdom: World War I, World War II: 238 24 cm SK L/30 "Theodor Otto" German ...
Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA) is the consortium which operates the Ferrovías Central railway in Peru linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima with Huancayo and Cerro de Pasco. As one of the Trans-Andean Railways it is the second highest in the world constructed by the Polish engineer Ernest Malinowski in 1871–1876.
8-inch gun M1888; 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun; 12-inch coast defense mortar; 14-inch/50-caliber railway gun; 14-inch M1920 railway gun; 15 cm K (E) 17 cm K (E) 20.3 cm K (E) 24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E) 24 cm Theodor Kanone (E) 28 cm schwere Bruno Kanone (E) 38 cm Siegfried K (E) 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905; 120 mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 ...
Plane Crazy is a 1929 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios , is the first finished project [ 4 ] to feature appearances of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse , and was originally a silent film .