The Snapshots in Time Collection
Captured German Railway Gun with 'Allied Engineers' Marking, Bremerhaven Area, Germany, WWII
A massive German railway gun sits abandoned on a rail siding near Bremerhaven, tagged by U.S. Army Allied Engineers after Germany's surrender. Weapons like this, some capable of firing shells over twenty miles, were cataloged and later scrapped or shipped abroad for study as occupation forces secured German war materiel in 1945. Project: 218298