Rather than allow this "Big Bertha" to fall into the hands of the Americans and the Australians, the retreating Germans in the Valley of the Somme dynamited their gunaand wrecked the emplacement. The length of the broken barrel is 45 feet. The bore is 15.2 inches. It had been placed in Cappy-sur-Somme to fire upon Amiens, twenty miles away. This purpose was never realized

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