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Big Bertha was a gigantic 94-ton mortar with a foot-and-a-half muzzle. This long range WWI German cannon was soon nicknamed Fat Bertha or Big Bertha (literally Dicke Bertha), in deference to the ‘beautiful’ Bertha Krupp, owner of the German Krupp weapons factory. She had inherited the Krupp works in 1902 at the age of only sixteen.
