117K views · 851 reactions | Check out Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum 3.7 Anti-Aircraft gun travelling along the heritage line between Pickering and Grosmont ready for #RailwayInWartime. The gun will be on display this Saturday and Sunday at Grosmont Station. Book tickets here: https://www.nymr.co.uk/wartime | North Yorkshire Moors Railway | Facebook

154K views · 2K reactions | The Schwerer Gustav, the largest artillery gun ever constructed. Designed by the German arms manufacturer Krupp in 1934, this giant railway gun weighed 1,350 tonnes and measured 47.3 meters in length. Intended to devastate the Maginot Line during the invasion of France, it boasted an 80-centimetre caliber and could fire 7-ton shells over a range of 47 kilometres! | Simple History | Facebook

222K views · 1.6K reactions | In 2013, the legendary sniper Chris Kyle published a book called American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms.  The book describes ten weapons that have shaped American history since the Revolutionary War.  Here are Kyle’s choices: | Sunday Roast | Facebook

40K views · 494 reactions | #ThrowbackThursday You know those old batteries in the Presidio and Marin? Check out this clip from 1941, which shows gun crews being trained for coastal defense during World War II. Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands once held two 16-inch cannons that could fire 2,340 pound (over one ton!) shells about 25 miles. Thankfully, they never saw any real action. | SFGATE | Facebook

8.7K views · 142 reactions | One of the oldest survivors of the World War II Japanese prisoner camps has died, aged 101 years old. Harold Smalley from Whitwick in Leicestershre, was put to work on the Burma railway. Here he recounts his experience. | BBC Leicester | Facebook