Big Bertha was a large howitzer used by the Germans in WW1. It could hurl a 1 ton shell 8 miles. 12 were made during the war and they destroyed many French forts, terrifying the French when they fired. The gun was named after the heiress to the Krupp fortune. It weighed 43 tons with its tractor and required many men and much time to move and prepare. Two survived the war. One came to the US and was melted down in 1950; the other was used by the Germans in WW2. No one knows what became of it.
