Making and Using the Booming Guns 



The Italian engineers have proved themselves among the best in the world. Time and 

 again the Austrians have been surprised by having shells dropped upon them, apparently 

 from the skies. The Italians had dragged huge guns up precipitous mountain slopes and 

 were safely installed out of the enemy's range on plateaus, from which shells were fired over 

 mountains. Here we see a 305-millimeter gun (12-inch) being assembled on a mountainside 



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