Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force...
...Russia's Berthas are adolescent sisters of the Big Berthas which Germany turned on Paris in 1918 from the St. Gobain Forest 74.5 miles away. Big Bertha was a 15-inch gun, relined to 8.26 inches...
...mile a second. They rose at an angle of 50°, hit the stratosphere ten miles up, traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area smaller than two miles long by three-quarters of a mile wide, and even the weather made a big difference...