Landships II

Sofie · Corporal

Photo archives where I can obtain photos of Dicke Bertha???

Roger Todd · Legend

Hi Sofie

The first photo is of a captured Dicke Berta at the US Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen, Maryland during the 1920s. I'm sure if you contact them they will furnish an original. However, there is an even more interesting photo of the same weapon from more or less the same angle but with a number of US Army officers studying it in the German Bundesarchiv:

https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/cross-search/search/_1408701293/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=6

EDIT: I've just realised the link doesn't take you to the specific item, it just goes to the archive's general search page, so simply enter 'dicke berta' as your search term, the photo is item 6 of 7 objects found.

Photo 2 is from the web, I can't remember where, but it also appears in Herbert Jaeger's German Artillery of World War One. He doesn't give specific photo credits but lists a number of sources for the book, including the archive of the Gesellschaft für Artilleriekunde, the German Artillery Study Group, which sounds like a good place to start.

Photo 3 is from Karl Justrow's Die Dicke Berta und der Krieg published in 1938. I don't know if it's still in copyright, but I have an original and if it's out of copyright I would be happy to make high quality scans for you. There are numerous other very interesting photos in the book.

Photo 4 is a Lange Max railway gun.

Photos 5 and 6, like Photo 2, come from miscellaneous sources on the web.

-- Edited by Roger Todd on Friday 22nd of August 2014 11:19:22 AM

CharlieC · Legend

Try Marc Romanych (MLW on this forum) - Marc was a co-author of an recent Osprey book on the 42cm Dicke Berta and the German WW1 Siege Artillery.

Regards,

Charlie

Sofie · Corporal

Thanks so much Roger n CharlieC!!!
This already helps big time - now I have something to investigate further. I will go on with that right away.

If you or anyone else have something to add, pls do.

Thanks again!

Sofie · Corporal

Hi again Roger.
The archive of the Gesellschaft für Artilleriekunde, do you have a link for that or contact information? I've seached around, but the only webpage I come across Im not sure is them and no contact info + my german is a bit rusty.

I'm looking into the copyright on the Justrow book.

Thank you!

thorst · Colonel

The contact informations are here (if this is the Gesellschaft für Artilleriekunde you are looking for):

artilleriekunde.de/index.php/impressum

You might want to write a message to the address at "Kontaktformular anzeigen" (means: "display contact form").

If you have problems with the language, drop me a PM with your questions.

Cheers,
Thorsten

Sofie · Corporal

Thank you, I had looked everywhere except under Impressum ;)

Pzkpfw-e · Commander in Chief

There's also the film of the APG example being cut up.

Sofie · Corporal

Thank you Pzkpfw-e for the tip. That's not within out interest tho.

Thank you to this crazy good forum tho - fast and great responses. Cheers.

Haverba · Sergeant

Hello,

Just registered as a new member and probably to late to help. Please do contact me if you need further support on this subject.

Regards,

Harry van Baal