US soldiers and Australian troops observe the wreckage of a German artillery piece known as "Big Bertha" in Cappy-sur-Somme. The retreating Germans, rather than letting it fall into enemy hands, dynamited the gun at the Somme Valley. The length of the barrel is 45 feet with a bore.

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