Hi! Freat to hear, we’ve got other people interested in history too! Really interesting trivia, which I can even deepen at some points!
For example the first shots of Big Bertha missed their goal, since the distance shot was so big, that the spinning of the earth had to be taken into account while calculating the corrext adjustments for the shot.
Also the first tanks didn’t have any communication system: Instead they were equipped with two carrying pigeobs which were used to send messages