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A map showing the location of the impact points was published by The answer is simple: nothing, if not memories. Tirs sur Paris à plus de 120 km de distance. In the remainder of his account, the author confines himself to a single piece which is said to have been moved twice. Will compile various countermeasures from all branches of the armed forces into this thread.
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It is essentially based on testimonies, often uncontrollable but which overlap on certain points. Article actualisé le 22 mars 2014 à 13h: contrairement à ce qu'affirmait l'article du Figaro que nous citions, ce n'est pas la Grosse Bertha qui a bombardé Paris en 1918. Les Allemands l’avaient baptisé ainsi en l’honneur de Bertha Krupp, la fille du fabricant de canons. Finally, the third and last aspect of this story is the polemical character it has taken on and preserved, due to the mysteries that remain. A total of 256 people were killed and 620 injured. It was, however, a concrete base that the Germans had first established at Crépy, and even two, as confirmed late (June 20, 1918) by a prisoner German officer: "Of course, shelters were also created for the command of the site, the personnel, the other materials, the electric generators and the shooting room, connected by paths, all underground. Today it is mainly occupied, and in particular the plateau, by an Air Force This depot was created in 1935. Several 170- and 210-mm batteries, located near the front in the trajectory plane, had fired simultaneously while 10 squadrons were carrying out sustained activity in the same areas, establishing a curtain in front of the Saint-Gobain forest. The editor was able to visit them in 1949 when the repository had not been reactivated. As of the first day of fire (March 23, 1918), 18 shells fell on Paris and 4 on the suburbs causing, according to the official statement which remains imprecise, a dozen dead and fifteen wounded. Dès le 23 mars après-midi [1c’était une pièce d’un calibre relativement modeste (210 à 240 mm) en comparaison des autres pièces à longue portée, et ce n’était pas une pièce sur voie ferrée ;l’arme a été construite à sept exemplaires pour le tube et au moins trois exemplaires pour l’affût de tir ;deux pièces au moins ont été établies à Crépy-en-Laonnois (mont de Joie) et ont été mises en œuvre simultanément (aucune sur le mont de Joie proprement dit, mais seulement au pied) ;l’une des pièces a été détruite par un incident de tir, sur le site de mont de Joie ;deux types d’embase ont été utilisés : une fixe en béton, une métallique démontable ;trois sites de tir ont été aménagés, dont deux (Bruyères et Beaumont) ont reçu des plates-formes métalliques ;tous les sites de tir sont situés dans le département de l’Aisne, à une distance maximum de 45 km de Laon et de 92 à 121 km de Notre-Dame de Paris ;les points d’impact sont connus comme aussi le nombre de victimes.Après une carrière militaire de 33 ans, partagée entre les séjours en état-major et les temps de troupe, dont le commandement d’un régiment, il a occupé pendant 15 ans des fonctions de recherche et de rédaction au Service historique de l’armée de Terre où il a mené, en particulier, des études sur les insignes du train, la conscription, l’Afghanistan, le conflit des Malouines, les inspections de l’armée de terre.1916, les grandes batailles et la fin de la guerre européenne
However, all the plots that surround it have a name; thus the aforementioned diamond-shaped field is identified: the Anchette, as also the woods which separate it from the railway: the Bois de Boule, the Champ du Roi, the Bois des Pontoises, the Bois de l'Epine. Le Tour de France 2019 de la microaventure - 6 dates, 6 villes, 24 heures, 150 aventures - Paris… Others would have had at least plans Italians, Americans, Swiss ... with all reservations, and of course the Germans, who had the experience, despite the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. And then, every other month. Les Pariser Kanonen (les « canons de Paris » en français) sont sept pièces d’artillerie à très longue portée utilisées au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale par l'armée allemande pour bombarder Paris. No written information has reached us on the number of staff necessary to implement a piece, but one of the very few photos that survived the operation allows us to count about sixty men posing for the objective, which may include logistics staff: you had to eat well on site. Two types of bases were used: on the one hand, a concrete base 12 m² and 4 m thick, poured into an excavation of the same depth; on the other hand, a metal platform, very close to those receiving the 380 mm guns, resting on an obviously prepared ground, even hardened, but not concreted. In any case, we did not wait for these results to act.