Talk:Big Bertha (howitzer)

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It is by no means certain that the gun was named for Krupp's wife. The sites quoted as verification are IMO not sufficient proof. See also the German Wikipedia article on this. Ondundozonananandana 13:47, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1925!

"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)

[edit] Louis Gathmann's influence

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))