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Wednesday 7 September 2011

American coastal defence gun nicknamed Fat Sam in 1920

The Dutch magazine De Prins dated 3 July 1920 page 8 published a new gun a week earlier completed at New York and which was able to shoot a projectile of 2,400 pounds over a distance of 31 miles. The length of the gun was more as 68", building costs 200,00 dollar and her nick name Fat Sam.