GERMAN MONSTER GUN DORA PRESSURE TEST SET . UNIQUE B

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THIS IS A TOTALLY INERT PRESSURE TEST ITEM AND IS NOT CONSIDERED A WEAPON UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY COUNTRY
BOXED SET OF PRESSURE CYLINDERS ONLY !
THIS BLACK BOX CONTAINS A FULL SET OF PRESSURE TEST
CYLINDERS USED TO TEST THE CHAMBER PRESSURE OF FIRING THE
LARGEST CASE FIRED GUN IN HISTORY.
THESE ARE THE CRUSHABLE CYLINDERS ONLY !!!!! NOT THE ENTIRE TEST UNIT.
THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE INBORE PRESSURE TEST CYLINDER SET CAPTURED BY THE U.S. AT HILLERSLEBEN PROVING GROUNDS .
THESE PURE COPPER PRECISION MADE CYLINDERS WERE PLACED INSIDE THE DEVICE SHOWN WHICH WAS PLACED IN THE CARTRIDGE CASE OF ARTILLERY WEAPONS WHEN THEY WERE FIRED. AFTER FIRING THE DEVICE WAS RECOVERED NEAR THE MUZZLE OF THE WEAPON AND MEASURED TO DETERMINE THE MAXIMUM PRESSURE OF THE CHARGE.
THIS COMPLETE SET WAS OBTAINED FROM THE COLLECTION OF COL. JARRETT WHO WAS THE FOUNDING FORCE AND FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE ORDNANCE MUSEUM AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS. HE DESCRIBED IT AS BEING FOR USE IN THE MONSTER GERMAN CANNON " DORA " !
DORA WAS THE LARGEST RIFLED CANNON EVER BUILT. IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY KRUPP AND PRESENTED TO HITLER AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT.
THE HUGE 80CM CALIBER GUN HAD A SMALL ARMY OF SUPPORT TROOPS LEAD BY A GENERAL OFFICER. IT WAS USED TO REDUCE THE SOVIET FORT AT SEVASTOPOL AND TO ATTACK WARSAW BUT SAW VERY LITTLE OTHER USE. IT WAS DESTROYED BY THE GERMANS AS THE WAR SEEMED LOST.
IT DISAPPEARED JUST AS THE FAMED WW 1 "PARIS GUN" HAD DONE BEFORE WITH ONLY A FEW PARTS AND SOME SHELLS LEFT BEHIND .
THIS PRESSURE TEST SET WAS OBTAINED BY COL. JARRETT AT HILLERLEBEN PROVING GROUND, GERMANY WHERE THE DORA GUN AND AMMUNITION WERE TESTED.
THE PHOTOS OF THE PRESSURE DEVICE WERE PROVIDED BY EOD , GERMANY AND ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SALE.
THIS SALE IS FOR THE BAKELITE BOX AND CONTENTS ONLY.
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A COPY OF OUR CD OF THE OFFICIAL US ARMY ORDNANCE INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON HILLERSLEBEN IS INCLUDED;
CD ROM AND AD TEXT CD ROM AND AD TEXT COPYRIGHT CSA 2000 COPYRIGHT NOTICE :ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS OFFERING IS OWNED BY CRITTENDEN SCHMITT ARCHIVES AND IS OFFERED HERE BY CSA DBA CSAEOD. THE CD VERSION IS AN ORIGINAL PUBLICATION WHICH INCLUDES MATERIAL WHICH IS NOT PREVIOUSLY COVERED BY COPYRIGHT OR IS OWNED BY CSA. THE ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL CONTENT MAY INCLUDE;1) MANUALS,REPORTS,BOOKS OR OTHER TEXT WHICH ARE BEYOND THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF PREVIOUS COPYRIGHT,2)UNPUBLISHED MANUALS,REPORTS,PHOTOS,3)OUR PUBLICATIONS CSA 2017
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THIS IS A "CDB" - A BOOK ON A CD. IT HAS BEEN SCANNED PAGE BY PAGE INTO DIGITAL FORMAT AND RECORDED ON A CD. IT CONTAINS ALL OF THE INFORMATION EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS IN THE BOOK , PAGE BY PAGE. THIS IS A PROFESSIONAL TRANSFER OF THE INFORMATION AND IS READABLE BY COMPUTER. WITH TODAY'S HDTV SETS YOU CAN ATTACH YOUR COMPUTER TO THE TV AND READ THE BOOK WALL SIZE IF YOU LIKE.
THE MOST FAMOUS ORDNANCE PROVING GROUNDS IN GERMANY DURING THE NAZI ERA WAS HILLERSLEBEN.
This is where the famous guns and shells were tested which included such noteables as the 800mm ordnance later to be known as "DORA" the largest gun ever made.
Here the gun was fired and the ammunition type classified.
EXPERIMENTAL GUNS AND AMMUNITION OF ALL KINDS WERE TESTED
HERE from the 7.9 caseless ammunition to sabot artillery designs and "vengance" weapons including the V3 long range arrow projectile gun designed to terrorize London.
EVEN MORE UNIQUE WEAPONS WERE DESIGNED AND TESTED HERE including electric and wind weapons designed to bring down
Allied aircraft with lightning bolts or high speed jets of wind.
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT which was submitted to just a few ordnance officers and commands after the capture of the base by U.S. troops. After study and removal of various weapons ans systems the area was turned over to the Soviet Union and remained in their sector until Germany was reunited.
The Soviet Union also used the grounds for testing after the war. Recently it was turned into a German training base after the removal of thousands of tons of ordnance of all types.
THIS IS THE ONLY COPY OF THIS REPORT WHICH I HAVE EVER SEEN.
120 PAGES , 114 PHOTOS .