France’s Maginot Line was designed to stop any German invasion with massive fortified defenses. In response, German planners began developing weapons capable of destroying such fortifications, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Just two of the guns were manufactured. Post-war, the Schwerer Gustav was dismantled and destroyed to prevent it from falling into Allied hands. The other identical ...

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 ...

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

Although smaller than the massive Schwerer Gustav railway gun, the Karl-Gerät was still the largest self-propelled artillery weapon of its time, weighing more than 137 tons and firing shells that ...