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The Allied soldiers stuck on the beach nicknamed the two German guns "Anzio Annie" and "Anzio Express" due to the express train-like sound the shells generated. On 18 May 1944 the guns fired off their remaining ammunition and then escaped along the coastal railroad into the rail yard in Civitavecchia, in preparation for evacuation. This proved ...
German World War II 280 mm Krupp K5 railway gun, nicknamed "Leopold" and "Anzio Annie". The United States Army Ordnance Training Support Facility (formerly known as the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center and U.S. Army Ordnance Museum) artifacts are used to train and educate logistic soldiers.
The M65 atomic cannon, often called Atomic Annie, [6]: 92 was an artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War ; and fielded between April 1955 and December 1962, in West Germany , South Korea and on Okinawa .
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 .
The Anzio beachhead (Anzio Landing) "Anzio Annie," one of two German Krupp K5 238 mm railway guns hidden in the vicinity of Ciampino, which were one of the main targets of the Anglo-American bombardment, but without success. Renamed "Anzio Annie" and "Anzio Express" by the Allies, each of their shots rattled houses even miles away.
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 ...
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The 21 cm Kanone 12 in Eisenbahnlafette (21 cm K 12 (E)) was a large German railroad gun used in the Second World War and deployed to fire on England from the English Channel coast in occupied France.