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Old 10-23-2020, 09:59 AM   #17
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Default Re: Dora or Schwerer Gustav Railway guns WOW!

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Originally Posted by Tessen View Post

Is it treated as a big artillery piece? As in shell loaders and an aimer or would their be some type of chain of command to fire?.
Mostly it would be a large target.

Acc. to the German Wikipedia, it required a crew of 5,000 man. To prepare for a shot, a lot of tracks had to be layed, which must have looked like a rail yard. German Officers claimed that the targets the gun was used for could also be destroyed by other weapons.

Probably Hitler just wanted to compensate for something.
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