MONSTER GUN
RANGE OF EIGHTY-TWO MILES. DESIGNED TO HIT LONDON. OTHER GERMAN WEAPONS FOUND. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. ,11.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. A German gun with a range of 82 miles, designed to fire 6-inch shells against London was found partly installed in sandy trenches on the coast of France. A statement issued by Supreme Allied Headquarters says that the gun looks like an oil pipeline with additional sections of tubing supply, “booster” chambers giving an initial muzzle velocity of 4500 feet per second. Other little-known German weapons found include the world’s biggest gun, which is a 1750-ton railway gun, firing a B|-ton shell 30 miles, which was used against Sebastopol, a 15-inch rocket projector mounted on a Tiger tank chassis, also a 10-ton self-propelled mortar, firing a projectile weighing a ton 1400 yards.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 221, 29 June 1945, Page 3
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