Round for "knee" mortar.

[Calif-Steve]

Very short ranged. Used to provide support for Infantry frontal (banzai) attacks. Very effective in China theatre, Americans were not too impressed. Japanese learned a bad lesson from China, as they used the frontal attack against Americans armed with Garands and excellent HMG's. The Americans chopped them up with their firepower.

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[enbloc8]

Very short ranged. Used to provide support for Infantry frontal (banzai) attacks. Very effective in China theatre, Americans were not too impressed. Japanese learned a bad lesson from China, as they used the frontal attack against Americans armed with Garands and excellent HMG's. The Americans chopped them up with their firepower.

The 37th Division vet I know was certainly impressed by these little suckers! As to the banzai attacks, not so much.

Somewhere I read that this concept (the grenade discharger) was the genesis of what became the M79 grenade launcher of Vietnam fame.