Big Bertha

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What Wikipedia says

The 42 centimeter kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the name of Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Big Bertha (howitzer)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Marc Romanych, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.