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An 8-inch Howitzer B-4. Each projectile weighed 220 pounds. ese guns were needed
primarily for an offensive war in order to break hardened enemy defenses or during an assault
on cities. By the summer of 1941 the Red Army had concentrated hundreds of them on the
German border, each with a supply of six hundred rounds of ammunition. In a defensive war,
they proved to be of little use, until 1944 when the Red Army crossed into Germany for the
final offensive of the war.
