SC 364608 - Heavy 81mm mortar firing into Jap positions across the Tsinamutu River, near Kuraio Mission, Bougainville. 24 February, 1944. photo

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SC 364571 - Mortar crew firing at Jap positions on Bougainville during the April assault by the Japanese. photo

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SC 364267 - Two mortars, one a captured Nazi piece, are fired together toward German positions near Guiderkirch, France, by men of the 3rd Battalion, 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Division, Seventh U.S. Army. photo

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SC 364537 - Mortar squad of the 83rd Division, First U.S. Army, digs a position for 4.2 mortars in the snow and frozen ground of Ronce Woods. photo

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SC 151491- Pvt. Frank Rachew, displays one of the white phosphorus mortar smoke shells used during the problem for the designation of targets. Hawaii. photo

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SC 329429 - Red Cross workers Nila Nevi, San Francisco, Calif., and Marge Busby, Claremont, Calif. ladeling out lemonade to Pvt. Fred Johnson, Russelville, Ala., who is among the soldiers loading for a future operation. photo

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C-868 - Members of Co. D, 39th Inf. Regt., 9th Div., prepare to fire their mortar from newly-captured ground in Germany. photo

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SC 337215 - Pfc. Robert N. Mausfield, Sandusky, Ohio, right, relays firing orders to mortar crew in [illegible], Germany. photo

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Brick work photo

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SC 364325 - A 4.2 mortar crew prepares to hurl a harassing barrage of white phosphorous shells on enemy positions to protect the movement of infantrymen (background) moving up to new positions above Wimmenau, France. photo

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SC 364041 - Members of mortar crew of French Bn. prepare to blast enemy-held positions in hillside, during action against the communist forces near Oum-Ni, Korea. photo

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SC 364331 - Mortar team of the 99th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, prepares to fire 81mm mortar shell to halt advance of enemy patrol in woods between American-held Ariendorf, and Germany-held Honningen. photo

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SC 374834 - Lt. Abraham J. Kownatsky, of 814 North 40th St., Phila., Pa., (left) and his 1st U.S. Army relief platoon prepare to leave Mittelscheid, Germany, to relieve another patrol located a mile from the town of Fernegierscheid. photo

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SC 364328 - Mortar fires on enemy positions in the German-held third of Forbach. Officer checks range with observation post over phone as squadman ducks the blast of another round on the way. photo

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SC 364269 - Troops of the 87th Chemical Mortar firing on enemy tanks in close support of the 121st Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, First U.S. Army. 28 February, 1945. photo

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SC 364306 - 45th Division infantrymen fire 81mm mortar over house in Wingen. 15 December, 1944. photo

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SC 364521 - The Shimbu Line in the Sierre Madre Range, where the Japs have dug in east of Manila, P.I., is now held by Co. B, 82nd Chemical Mortar Bn., with the 63rd Inf. Regt. of 6th Div., near San Mateo... photo

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SC 336791 - Company B, 2nd Chemical Bn. The mortars are fired. The team is well trained and can fire 20 rounds a minute. Cassino area, Italy. 6 March, 1944. photo

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SC 364191 - L/R Sgt. Roscoe L. Watts, Cpl. William R. Woodward, and Pfc. Billie J. Stout, all of I Company, 26th Inf. Regt, take up a 60mm mortar position during Exercise Cold Spot. photo

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SC 364497 - Pvt. Jack Hunting, Texarkana, Texas, and Pfc. Alfred Livingston, of Company "D", 128th Infantry Regiment, at their 81mm mortar position on the front line. photo

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SC 364516 - Members of the mortar squad of K Co., 3rd Bn., 15th Regt., Philippine Army, watching a mortar shell fall on the enemy lines. photo

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SC 364317 - Mortarmen of Company "D," 87th Chemical Battalion, 84th Division, receive fire orders while eating chow. photo

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SC 166539 - Members of a 81mm mortar crew in Northern Ireland assembling their mortar during recent battle practice. photo

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SC 334966 - Street scene in Linnich, Germany, as infantrymen of the 102nd Infantry Division, 9th U.S. Army push towards Gevenich, Germany. 23 February, 1945. photo

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SC 364510 - Men of the Mortar Platoon, 126th Inf. Regt., 32nd Div., are shown firing the 81mm mortar on the Jap positions in in the Orboredo River sector, Luzon, P.I. photo

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SC 364520 - Mortar squad of the 85th Chemical Mortar Bn. shelling Mt. Macolod, Batangas Prov., Lamon, P.I. photo

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SC 270569 - American soldiers of Co. G, 38th Regiment, 2nd Division, U.S. First Army, take refuge in doorways during mortar barrage laid down by Germans after Yanks seized one of their forest strongholds... photo

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SC 364522 - General view of Forward CP of "D" Co., 1st Bn., 511th P.I., 11th Airborne Div. Mt. Malapuno area, Luzon, P.I. 24 April, 1945. photo

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SC 336792 - Pvt. Ray E. Thiel, Long Island, Calif., of 3rd Bn., Mortar Platoon, 504th Parachute Infantry, cleans 81mm mortar. photo

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SC 180030 - Japanese Americans in Army train to avenge Pearl Harbor: photo

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C-713 - This dug-in mortar emplacement is manned by, left to right, Pvt. R. W. Fierdo, Wyahoga Falls, Ohio; S/Sgt. Adam J. Celinca, Windsor, Conn., T/Sgt. W. O. Thomas, Chicago. St. Vith, Belgium. 24 January, 1945. photo

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SC 270636 - Rhine Crossing: Seventh Army mortar squad runs for river bank through heavy protective smoke screen, to assault boats which will take them across the Rhine. photo

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SC 364295 - A squad of a mortar platoon of the 35th Infantry Division in action in the St. Lo Sector. photo

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SC 364511 - H Co., 2nd Bn., 127th Inf., 32nd Div. firing 82mm mortar on Jap positions along the Vila Verde Trail. 3 March, 1945. photo

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SC 270678 - Preceded by a tank for heavy support, men of the 1st Battalion, 10th Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, file out of Nachmanderscheid, Province of Luxembourg, carrying their munitions of war. photo

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SC 364266 - Cpl. James Boyd, Riverside, Cal., and Pfc. Edgar Lsquerr(?), Springfield, Mass., operate a 4.2 mortar which is throwing smoke shells to cover the crossing of the 5th Division troops over the Sauer River. photo

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SC 196150 - Members of the 2nd Bn., 25th Combat Team, 93rd Div., wade across the Laruma River carrying mortar shells to the other side. photo

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SC 335371 - Five East Massachusetts boys set up an 81mm mortar. photo

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SC 270634 - Seventh Army mortar squad, when given the command to cross, leaves the partial protection of a bomb crater to make a run for the assault boats which will carry them over the river. photo

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SC 364305 - 45th Division mortar crew, which is sheltered behind the Maginot Line pill-box near Lembach, prepares to fire 81mm shells at enemy. photo

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