8-inch gun M1888
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8-inch-gun-m1888-255-16777994
title:
8-inch gun M1888
text:
The 8-inch gun M1888 (203 mm) was a U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps gun, initially deployed 1898–1908 in about 75 fixed emplacements, usually on a disappearing carriage. During World War I, 37 or 47 of these weapons were removed from fixed emplacements or from storage to create a railway gun version, the 8-inch Gun M1888MIA1 Barbette carriage M1918 on railway car M1918MI, converted from the fixed coast defense mountings and used during World War I and World War II.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Coast defense gun or Railway gun
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-inch_gun_M1888
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2023-11-16T17:24:15Z
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