This is what the Karl could do: 28 August, 1944, building hit by 2-ton mortar shell from a Karl-Gerat"Karl-Gerät" (040/041) (German literally "Karl-device") was a World War II German self-propelled siege howitzer (Mörser) designed and built by Rheinmetall. It was the largest self-propelled weapon to see service. Seven guns were built, but only six saw combat between 1941 and 1945. It was used to attack the Soviet fortresses of Brest-Litovsk and Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw and participated in the Battle of the Bulge and the attacks against the Remagen Bridgehead. Only one exists today, the others were scrapped after the war.
A section of three 54 cm Karl-Geräte in the field. The Munitionsschlepper is shown on the extreme right.
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