Army's Eight-Inch Rail Gun Hurls Shell Eighteen Miles
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Capable of hurling a 260-pound missile 18, miles, an eight-inch railway gun recently delivered to the United States Army is the first made by American industry since 1918. The 225,000-pound mobile cannon, the car for which was built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works plant at Eddystone, Pxr, was taken on a 250 mile railroad touring test before going to the Aber- deen proving grounds in Maryland where it received a series of trials.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Army's Eight-Inch Rail Gun Hurls Shell Eighteen Miles
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Army's Eight-Inch Rail Gun Hurls Shell Eighteen Miles
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-05
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 75, n. 5, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 679
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- United States Army
- United States of America
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- Eddystone
- Pennsylvania
- Aberdeen
- Maryland
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
