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WWI Railway gun

 

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The breech and loading system of a "Peter Adalbert"

US War Department - Railway Artillery: A Report on the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, Etc., of Railway Artillery, Volume I, page 479 by Harry W Miller, United States Army Ordnance Department. Washington, Government Print Office, 1921. Downloaded from (full text online)

Loading system of a German ? 21 cm SK "Peter Adalbert"

Type of Railroad gun

The 21 cm SK "Peter Adalbert" (SK - Schnelladekanone was a German railway gun used during World War I. It served on the Western Front and in Gallipoli between 1916 and 1918. Eleven were built, using two different surplus naval guns that shared the same mount. Only four are known to have survived destruction after the end of the war.


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