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Heavy Guns

Heavy Guns. Clark Scussel. The Year the Blackbirds Died Christian Ward.

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Heavy Guns

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  1. Heavy Guns Clark Scussel

  2. The Year the Blackbirds Died Christian Ward They found the birds impaledon white picket fences;in fist-sized nooses, circling like trapeze artists trying to find the safety net;slumped over tables, wings hoarding nests of pills.And all the while, cats were waiting outside, their scratching tremors trying to eke out confessions from empty mouths.

  3. A heavy mortar-like howitzer built and used by Germany during World War I, the name being associated with Bertha Krupp, heiress and owner of the Krupp industrial empire.

  4. The Vickers Machine Gun -250 round fabric-belt magazine and had the reputation as a highly reliable weapon. The Stokes Mortar; a 3 inch trench mortar for close infantry support

  5. MinenwerferLight Minenwerfer on flat trajectory carriage for mobile use. Max. range: 955 yards. Weight in action: 550 lbs.

  6. The term "Big Bertha" is sometimes applied to the Krupp manufactured artillery piece of completely different design that shelled Paris in 1918 from the phenomenal range of 75 miles

  7. Work Cited • www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/heavy-ww1-allied.htm - • www.diggerhistory.info/...weapons/heavy-ww1-german.htm - • www.fidnet.com/~weid/ww1.html

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