The Deployment of 'Big Bertha' A Strategic Turning Point

In 1900 Alfred Krupp's armaments factory at Essen, Germany, began building a 350-mm howitzer that could fire an 800 lb shell over 10,000 yards. Big Bertha is the name of a type of super-heavy howitzer made by the famous armaments manufacturer Krupp in Germany on the eve of World War I. Another huge ... “Big Bertha has a storied history with the Longhorn Band,” the press release states. “She traveled to the Rose Bowl, and in 2015, she was ... ... World War I. The guns were so called because they were specially built to shell Paris at a range, never before attained, of approximately 121 km (75 miles) ... ... ever recorded and another for producing 39 calves in her lifetime ... In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered that penicillin, derived ... "Big Bertha" (in German, Dicke Bertha, meaning either "Big" or "Fat Bertha") is arguably the most famous artillery gun employed during the Great War. After repeat performances at Namur, Maubeuge and Antwerp, German soldiers christened the howitzers 'Grosse' or 'Dicke Berta' (Fat or Big Bertha) ... 18, 2004--Callaway Golf Company (NYSE:ELY) today unveiled another patented, breakthrough product with the introduction of the new Big Bertha(R) ... The gun being created by Krupp was a 420 mm howitzer, named Big Bertha after the wife of the head of the family. Being even larger than the ... The 420-mm German mortar "Big Bertha", also known under another nickname - "Fat Bertha" (German name - Dicke Bertha).