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The 14-inch M1920 railway gun was the last model railway gun to be deployed by the United States Army.It was an upgrade of the US Navy 14"/50 caliber railway gun.Only four were deployed; two in the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles and two in the Panama Canal Zone, where they could be shifted between the harbor defenses of Cristobal (Atlantic) or Balboa (Pacific).
Each 14"/50 gun [19] mounted on a 72-foot (22 m), 535,000-pound (243 t) rail carriage with four 6-wheel bogies was under the command of a United States Navy lieutenant with a standard U.S. Army 2-8-0 locomotive, a 10-ton crane car, two armored ammunition cars carrying 25 shells each, two cars carrying the recoil pit foundation materials, two ...
Battery 2, commanded by Lieutenant (JG) E. D. Duckett, US Navy, had the distinction of being the first all-US gun (crew, gun, and ammunition) to fire in action on the Western Front. On 6 September 1918 they fired from the forest of Compiegne at the important German railway center of Tergnier in support of an Allied attack.
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 ...
[2] [9] [10] These three and several 10-inch guns were the only US Army railway guns shipped to France in World War I, although five US Navy 14"/50 caliber railway guns (356 mm) saw action. Since the railway weapons were on the M1918 carriage and railway car, some references erroneously refer to them as M1918 weapons.
The 8-inch Navy gun Mk.VI M3A2 on railway mount M1A1 was a World War II improved replacement for the World War I-era 8-inch (203 mm) M1888 gun and was used by the US Army's Coast Artillery Corps in US harbor defenses. The guns were also mounted in fixed emplacements on the barbette carriage M1A1. [1] These guns were US Navy surplus 8"/45 ...
8-inch Mk. VI railway gun; 10-inch gun M1895; 12-inch coast defense mortar; 12-inch gun M1895; 14-inch gun M1907; 14-inch M1920 railway gun; 16-inch/50-caliber M1919 gun; 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 2 gun; 16-inch gun M1895; 16-inch howitzer M1920; 75 mm field gun M1897 on M2 carriage; 75 mm gun M2–M6; 76 mm gun M1; 90 mm gun M1/M2/M3; 105 mm gun ...
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.