So, I was over at the beer website I'm part of posting a few of these pics for the morally deficient chaps over there. Posted this one of a shell from Dora/Schwere Gustav (cause it's pretty damn impressive!)
I figured I'd fink a quick info link for the guys over there, so I yanked up the Wiki page:
Schwerer Gustav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Decent general reference. BUT- I noticed this bit:
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Dora was the second gun to be produced. It was deployed briefly against Stalingrad, where the gun arrived at its emplacement 15 km (9 miles) to the west of the city sometime in mid-August 1942. It was ready to fire on September 13th. However, it was quickly withdrawn when Soviet encirclement threatened; when the Germans began their long retreat they took Dora with them. Dora was broken up before the end of the war, being discovered in the west by American troops some time after the discovery of Schwerer Gustav.
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I was under the impression that only one COMPLETE 80cm gun was produced, with only parts for a second one. And even more so, I was very much under the impression that only one of these monsters was ever deployed (at Sevastopol).
Is this exemplary of one of the problems with Wikipedia? Or is this accurate info, newly found data, something of the like?
Dora tidbit?
