Original U.S. WWII 4.2” Chemical Mortar M5 Subcaliber Training Round - Inert Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia and First Army was transferred

and First Army was transferred back to 12th Army Group

The crate still contains some original "excelsior" packing material and a paper label in Cyrillic

untinted ambrotypes are monochrome

The attacking 101st Airborne Division

Kannapolis

Original U.S. WWII 4.2” Chemical Mortar M5 Subcaliber Training Round - Inert Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia and First Army was transferredOriginal Item. Only One Available. The M5 4. 2 inch mortar was a U. S. rifled 4. 2 inch (107 mm) mortar used during the Second World War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It entered service in 1943. It was nicknamed the "Goon Gun" (from its large bullet shaped shells, monopod, and rifled bore) or the "Four Deuce" (from its bore size in inches). In 1951, it began to be phased out in favor of the M30 mortar of the same caliber. Unloaded or dummy