Eager to invade France, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler demanded a new weapon that could easily pierce the concrete fortifications of the French Maginot Line — the only major physical barrier standing ...

Like an Aryan Death Star, the Nazis’ Gustav was the largest gun ever built and didn’t leave much planet where it hit. In 1939, Adolf “Baby Dick” Hitler needed to figure out how to get past the French ...

Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime were the über-villains of the Second World War. But ...

Read on to know how the mammoth piece of artillery was used to destroy a Soviet city NAZIS once built the world’s biggest gun that weighed 1,490 tons and fired 12ft shells as they prepared to wreak ...

War trains dominated combat for more than 100 years. Massive railborne artillery shelled the enemy while trains unloaded troops and supplies. For a brief moment, the terrifying machines were the most ...

It was more than 150 feet long, 40 feet tall and weighed almost 1,500 tons. The steel giant Krupp A.G. made only two, and neither worked well. Krupp pushed more than 20 K-5s into service beginning in ...

Woods near Grafenwöhr, Germany, July 24, 1949: 1st Lt. Fred Iovanella stands atop the 800mm caliber barrel of a Nazi Germany railway gun. Although nicknamed “Big Bertha” by the American forces ...

Eager to invade France, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler demanded a new weapon that could easily pierce the concrete fortifications of the French Maginot Line — the only major physical barrier standing ...