Some 1,652 German mortar shells have been found in a small French village in the Hinterland between France and Germany - a flash point in the First World War. The village Coucy-lès-Eppes, where the ...

MITCHELL, S.D. — A pair of 100-year-old mortar rounds were destroyed over the weekend after being found at homes in a Mitchell neighborhood. A German mortar shell being found in a garage at a ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Heavy mortar proved successful for the Soviet Union. The mortar as an infantry support weapon has been in use for centuries, but it was during the Second World War that ...

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Thomas Nicholson didn’t talk about the night of Jan. 25, 1945, when he made repeated trips under German mortar and artillery fire to repair the communications line between his forward observation post ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Large stocks of the 82-PM-36 and improved 82-PM-37 were captured or destroyed during the rapid German advance in 1941. However, the Soviets developed a new—and ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nearly 80 years after a German mortar wounded him as he fought along the Mussolini Canal in Italy, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Marvin Cornett stood proudly in a ...

Many soldiers were killed by German artillery and mortars, which struck the forest’s tall trees and rained shrapnel down on the men, who hid behind trees and under farmers’ logs. Helling remembers ...