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Anzio Annie? - Walt's Daughter - 05-01-2006
You gotta love my engineers. Talk about an enterprising group of individuals. This is a CLASSIC.
Sent to me by Irving Cherney, 540th Combat Engineer. That's him and his sidekick babe, Annie.
Anzio Annie? - Custermen - 05-01-2006
HA!! She doesn't look like she is 280mm to me! 
Anzio Annie? - Walt's Daughter - 05-01-2006
Ha-ha, a really good one Steve. No, looks rather petite to me too! 
Anzio Annie? - pdhinkle - 05-06-2006
The BIG German guns were hard to find when they first went into action because they would roll them in and out of a RR tunnel ! With a range of 38 miles they could hit anything on the front line.
Traversing them was THE problem. 2 degrees horizontall movement is the stats on them. SO they used a curve in the RR tracks to aim them lft and righrt.
Have a look http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapon...anzio_annie.htm
IN S. France I watched a dud spin end over end after it hit at to low an angle, It reminded me of a kitchen stove range boiler. 12"x60" flippinmg thru the sky. It is probably still there. UXB !