The Mortar Platoon in Action
Heroes Remember
The Mortar Platoon in Action
I was what they called the mortar platoon, in the, in the
company. And, I was travelling by carrier, ‘course we had a
driver, a sergeant, an officer, and myself. While I was driving
it, when I was in the carrier, I was the gunner on the carrier
and until we set up the, the three inch mortar.
Well the Bren gun's a light machine gun, it fires
thirty rounds. We have... it would fire thirty rounds at a time
before you had to put, load, reload again.
And it was a, it was a, it was one of the better guns.
Well it would be used to probably soften
up the enemy, we were good for a thousand yards, and it was like
a small bomb. We could probably fire one a minute. And it was
pretty devastating when it hit because it, it, there was a lot
of shrapnel in it, come off of the ground for a hundred yards,
comes about four feet off of the ground
so it was, it was very, very effective.
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