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From: chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Monster guns were (Siamese?) twins?
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.032105.11367@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 03:21:05 GMT
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From: Irving Chidsey <chidsey@smoke.brl.mil>

In article <1991Jan24.040645.22950@cbnews.att.com> JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell) writes:
<
<From:     "Larry W. Jewell" <JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
<I have read authoritative sources that say 800 mm gun "Gustav" used
<by German Army to batter Sevatopol was later renamed "Dora" to convince
<the Allies that it was actually two different weapons.  I have read other,
<equally authoritative sources, that say it actually was two weapons.
<
<Now I'm ready to hear from anyone who can produce sources for further
<research.  I would also like to know if anyone can justify having even
<one behemoth such as "Gustav" in an arsenal.
<
<Larry W. Jewell       "That's not a bug, that's a feature!"

	Some years back, the shortest route to the cafeteria was thru the
ordnance museum, and they had a shell from Gustav there.  The caption said
"used with great effect against the Russian forts at Sebastapol",  I think
that was the place.  Big port on the peninsula on the Northern coast of
the Black sea.

	Every once and a while I would see some Navy Guys just looking at it.
The L/D of the shell was about 2, if my memory is correct.

								Irv

	You might write to The Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
21005, for information.

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			Irving L. Chidsey  <chidsey@brl.mil>