9-29-18 Garand Picture of the Day

[CINDERS]

Those trees may also affect the 81mm being faced the other way to counter the threat, one surmises they were set up in haste to do a fire mission and not put into a pit and now being exposed not able to be serviced due to enemy action one shot into the tube and they are OOA.

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[browningautorifle]

not put into a pit

No, unless you were going to be there a long time we just set them up like that...a mortar pit is a huge undertaking. We set up on the edge of treelines regularly...