Louis Ary Wildenboer was born in Pretoria in 1936. He was educated in Krugersdorp, Bethal and Florida, and completed his BSc Civil Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand in 1958. For 34 years, he worked for the South African Railways, retiring in 1993. Louis is married with four children and seven grandchildren. A 'Boer War enthusiast and battlefield crawler', he is a member of the South African Military History Society (SAMHS), the South African Arms and Ammunition Collectors' Association (SAAACA), and the South African Gunners' Association (SAGA). Ask any Second World War veteran the name of a famous gun and almost certainly he will answer: 'Anzio Annie!' The age-old military doctrine that 'the longest arm has the hardest punch' gave rise to a family of guns with extreme range as their dominant feature. It also gave rise to some famous names, such as 'Long Tom,' 'Atomic Annie', 'Heavy Gustav', 'Long Max' and, possibly the most famous of them all, 'Anzio Annie'.
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机译：Louis Ary Wildenboer于1936年出生在比勒陀利亚。他在Krugersdorp，Bethal和Florida接受了教育，并于1958年在Witwatersrand大学完成了土木工程学士学位。他在南非铁路公司工作了34年，于1993年退休。路易已婚，育有四个孩子和七个孙子。他是“布尔战争的发烧友和战场爬行者”，是南非军事历史学会（SAMHS），南非武器和弹药收藏家协会（SAAACA）和南非枪手协会（SAGA）的成员。询问任何第二次世界大战的老兵，他都会回答著名枪支的名字，几乎可以肯定他会回答：“安齐奥·安妮！古老的军事学说“最长的手臂拳头最猛”导致了一支以射程极远为主要特征的枪支家族。它还引起了一些著名的名字，例如“ Long Tom”，“ Atomic Annie”，“ Heavy Gustav”，“ Long Max”，以及其中最有名的“ Anzio Annie”。
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