The A-Gun Arrives

In the North German port of Bremerhaven, giant cranes hauled dozens of mysterious boxes out of the U.S. freighter Pine Tree Mariner. A 50ft. length of tubing stuck out of one case; another crate derailed a flatcar onto which it was being loaded. Shipped by rail to the U.S. zone, the crates were broken open and their contents assembled into six 280-mm. cannons--the first atomic artillery supplied by the U.S. to its NATO forces in Europe.

The 85-ton monsters will be manned and tended by the U.S. 868th Field Artillery Battalion. They will be stationed near enough to the Iron Curtain to smash Soviet infantry formations advancing en masse--or possibly to be captured by the enemy troops within hours of the outbreak of war.

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