Talk:Big Bertha (howitzer)

message: "Designed in 1925 and produced by the Krupp factories in Essen, Germany, in 1914" surely some mistake?
also range. the body of the text says 40km, the info box 12.5km--Mongreilf (talk) 10:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was obvious that the Nazis had traveled back in time. 72.92.226.25 (talk) 17:54, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1925! 

message: It was stated in the article that newspapers claimed that Louis Gathmann's high explosive system influenced the Big Bertha design. I have re-worded this, because unless some evidence is cited to show otherwise, this makes it seem as if the newspapers were correct (which I do not believe them to have been).
(McTodd (talk) 21:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louis Gathmann's influence 

message: "...barrel was 12 calibres in length.) I believe 'caliber' is an expression of measurement, not a UNIT of measurement. Do you mean "meters in length" ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.238.248 (talk) 21:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barrel length in introduction 

message: This article lacks a couple of citations to bring it to B class standard.  If anyone can add them, it should meet B1. Monstrelet (talk) 12:57, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  B class? 

message: This is a poor source even by popmilhist standards. It manages to contradict itself in the space of two pages. On p. 23 it says 5 Gammas were built in total; on p. 24 it says 20 Gammas were active in 1916. That they've included the wooden model picture on the M (with the Nazi officer) without clarifying that it was a wooden model (but without commenting on the Nazi guy either) is not surprising. A very sloppy book in more than one way. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 03:34, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''German Heavy Mortars'' 

message: After having read entries on the Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 and Big Bertha, I was struck by the fact that they are both labelled Mörser in German. This means mortar, not howitzer (that would be Haubitze). Any particular reason to relabel them as howitzers in English? I have also raised this question in the general howitzer section.
: Mojowiha (talk) 18:17, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't matter what they're called in German because words mean different things in other languages. For example, the German term for most types of infantry mortar is granatwerfer (grenade launcher) but we don't call them grenade launchers in English because it doesn't match the English use of the word "grenade." Herr Gruber (talk) 10:41, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howitzer or Mortar? 

message: The article states that the gun was fired electrically from 300 yards away and that even then the gun crew had to stuff cotton wads into their ears. This information is based on a podcast and is probably nonsense. Master Gunner Ian V. Hogg in his book "The Guns 1914-18" (The Pan/Ballantine History of the First World War, Book No. 5, 1971, ), states the following (p. 41):
"Another piece of folklore surrounding these weapons is that when they were about to fire everybody in the area lay flat on the ground and the firing was done electrically from a pit 200 yards away. This tale was circulated in order to overawe the layman with an image of the immense power of the gun, but as any practicing gunner will tell you [and Hogg certainly was one] the bigger the gun, the less the noise. The 42cm was fired by a soldier standing on the platform, pulling a four-foot lanyard to snap a firing pin against a percussion cap in the cartridge case."
I can state from my own experience that when firing a large gun, the best place to be is immediately behind the gun. The further you are to the side or even the back, the harder the concussion will strike you -- even a few feet to the side make a big difference.--Death Bredon (talk) 11:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firing procedure 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: We have varying numbers in circulation. Please assist at Talk:Battle of Liège#Siege_artillery numbers? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:15, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: All Big Berthas then in service were at Liege. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 22:19, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many were used at Liège ? 

message: The article states, "The M-Gerät was two-thirds the weight of the Gamma-Gerät, but had 30% less range...". In fact, as the M-Gerät weighed 42.6 tons and the Gamma-Gerät 150 tons, the M-Gerät weighed less than one third of the weight of the Gamma-Gerät -- 28.4%, to be exact, or closer to one quarter than one third.--Death Bredon (talk) 18:09, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight vs. Gamma-Gerät 

message: Tidied a few typos, auto-edded, shortened convert templates etc. Keith-264 (talk) 20:54, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:44, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits