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Aaron Brooks Wolters said:
But only 50 rounds? What a waste of materials.
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Gustav fired 48 rounds during the seige of Sevastopol before the barrel had to be removed for relining at Krupp (a spare was put in place) but the shelling was over and Gustav removed from the battle.

However, it had fired 250 test rounds during proving trials before being deployed to Sevastopol, so that makes it a total of 298 rounds fired before the barrel was spent.

Gustav's sister, Dora, was deployed to Stalingrad but there's no record of her ever firing a round in a combat zone.
 
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