British Homeguards mortars
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Title (Dublin Core)
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British Homeguards mortars
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: British Home Guards Make Their Own Mortars
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OUT of scrap materials British Home
Guardsmen are making their own
mortars which can lob six-pound explo-
sive or smoke shells as far as 350 yards
with a remarkable degree of accuracy.
The four-inch barrels of these homemade
weapons consist of old pieces of metal
piping or boiler tubes. Instead of a tri-
pod base, used on regulation mortars,
the Home Guard weapon has a tail in
the form of a spade which is shoved in-
to the ground and holds the mortar in
position at the desired angle of fire. A
fuse on the shell is lighted, the shell is
dropped into the barrel, and the explo-
sion hurls the projectile at the target.
The weapon can be used to blast enemy
vehicles or parachutists, and is expected
to give a good account of itself in the
event of an invasion attempt. The cost of
the entire device is less than ten dollars.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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108
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Roberto Meneghetti
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 5, 1942
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