The story of the great war . Pointing hv Vincent LcliCourtesy of the Scicntifir .iiiicnra © Miniu S^ AMERICAN CANNONEERS TTTRLED GAS ON THE GERMAN TRENCHES HOW THE INVENTORS FOUGHT 307 ging a few buildings, it accomplished nothing. If it werethought that the French would become frightened andwant peace, that thought was disappointed. The French built a super-gun, the famous 52-centime-ter which they used in attacks along the Chemin des Damesand was intended later to shell the circle of forts aroundMetz. Huge naval guns, with ranges of eighteen andtwenty miles, were mounted on rail
The story of the great war . Pointing hv Vincent LcliCourtesy of the Scicntifir .iiiicnra © Miniu S^ AMERICAN CANNONEERS TTTRLED GAS ON THE GERMAN TRENCHES HOW THE INVENTORS FOUGHT 307 ging a few buildings, it accomplished nothing. If it werethought that the French would become frightened andwant peace, that thought was disappointed. The French built a super-gun, the famous 52-centime-ter which they used in attacks along the Chemin des Damesand was intended later to shell the circle of forts aroundMetz. Huge naval guns, with ranges of eighteen andtwenty miles, were mounted on rail trucks and used by theAllies to bombard important military positions behind theenemys lines. In the Argonne the Americans mounted a16-inch naval gun with which they threw shells into the Americans, long before the Germans had firedtheir super-gun from the St. Gobain Forest, designed along-range gun that would throw a 400-pound shell onehundred and twenty miles. The gun, however, was neverconstructed. With the ex
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