M2 Mortar - In The Movies
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- A brief overview of the M2 Mortar as seen in the movies.
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Movies/Video Games Featured:
The Siege of Jadotville 2016
Hacksaw Ridge 2016
The Front Line 2011
71: Into the Fire 2010
The Pacific 2010
Miracle at St. Anna 2008
Band of Brothers 2001
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Operation Dumbo Drop 1995
Hot Shots! Part Duex 1993
Too Late the Hero 1970
The Bridge at Remagen 1969
Hell is for Heroes 1962
Never so Few 1959
Go For Broke 1951
The Fighting Seabees 1944
#ww2 #weapons
Johnny u okay? i saw the "morter 19" video
lol sorry I was uploading and reuploading this trying to resolve a copyright issue but in the end, the studio just gave me permission to use a clip for the original upload.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq oh lol okay good thing you were okay haha
morter 19
i thought something was going on with me lmao
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq wait were you on the 19th try lmao
@@andobtw8046 almost but my labeling was getting satirical
Hello johnny, I am a 81mm mortar man in the United States marine corps and I must say that going into this video I expected a lot of inaccuracies (a lot of people do not properly understand mortars) but you did a excellent job explaining them. I was impressed by your knowledge of the fuzing and how propelent charges work. Thankyou for your accurate video.
Happy to hear from you man. Really appreciate hearing this from a mortar man. Much respect to you. It was a tricky subject to get right having never used one myself.
@Duty Sucks Army 11C here 👍served attached to Marines twice in Iraq.
距砲して 照準も決めずに初弾発射して至近弾なので優秀ですね❗
Thank you genuinely thank you for your service.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq wait, you have used a bazooka before?
Would love to see some more naval related spotlights. Fletcher class destroyers maybe? Keep up the great work!
I have seen photographs showing the results of naval fire which judging by the range must have been a heavy cruiser or more likely a battleship. At least one photograph was of a Tiger tank on its turret flipped over like a discarded toy.
At Normandy both British and American destroyers were noted for diving in and using their guns as close support. You cannot help but be impressed.
I was playing around with doing a Yamato video, subs, torpedoes, depth charges. I should be able to make something happen here.
I was a Mortar Man for the 10th Mountain Div in Afghanistan and Iraq. I shot everything from a 120mm to a 60mm. In Afghanistan we would carry the 60’s on patrol. I was in Sadr City in 2008 during “March Madness”. One of the very rare times we used HE 120mm in the city.
Also here’s a video of me shooting the 120mm in Afghanistan th-cam.com/video/ENRCd16YzsU/w-d-xo.html
@@Padlock85 thank you for your service ,Jon , best wishes from the boys from the Mersey, the Thames and the Tyne aka Oliver's Army ,penned by fellow Birkonian Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello, actually paying tribute to his Grandad...best wishes from the wirral peninsula ,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea ,geography and rhyme...E
The South Africans also improvised ( lightweight and longer range ) French service copy of the M2 mortar as the M-4 commando Paratrooper mortar. it saw service in SADF , Rhodesian security forces and UNITA + allies ( RENAMOetc ) against communist insurgents, MPLA and the Cubans in the Bush wars and Border wars .
There was one scene in the movie Darby's Rangers where a new lieutenant direct fires a mortar at a attacking germans
create a video about M19 mortar,british 2 inch and japanese type 89 grenade discharger
Another good one Johnny! You could mix it up and do some pre-ww1 guns, maybe a flintlock or some civil war guns.
I'm waiting for the bow and arrow episode, lol. Ahoy made one, after all.
Dude yes I would also love that, the 1887 lever shotgun, 1860 Henry 1865 spencer, 1864 LeMat and so many other.
No
@@OrdinaryLatvian OOO yeah, english long bow, yumi, repeating crossbow and even the windlass crossbow should have enough appearances in film for content!
1873 Springfield?
I have a friend of mine that was on a 60 mortar in ww2. He is the last living “Band of Brothers”Brad Freeman. He is 97 at the moment and still living. He cannot hear out of his right ear because of the mortar. Good man!
I was a friend of him too
The creator of Gojira and director of many Godzilla films Ishiro Honda had a near death experience with one of these in the war. As he was running a mortar landed right in front of him but failed to explode; later under the cover of darkness he found it and took it back home as a souvenir that sat on his work desk until his death.
did he deactivated it?
When you said creator of Gojira, I thought you meant Joe Duplantier!
@@joshuajoaquin5099 lol imagine if he bumped it and it fell and went off
@@then00brathalos It's extremely possible, a lot of times a light rainfall will set off unexploded ordinance.
@@scumbaggo Really? How?
One thing that is surprisingly uncommon in movies is the MK19, would love to see that!
that thing jammed like all the time lol it hated everyone
Generation Kill, for one
Interesting that many armies of WW2 used small calibre mortars at platoon and company level. Though one exception I can think of is the German army with their 81mm mortars.
The Germans did have a 5cm light mortar that saw service until the end of the war.
@@hannibalkills1214 As expected the thing was not light. But very complex:
th-cam.com/video/XnQkLt3VJF8/w-d-xo.html
The US M1 mortar is 81mm, the German WWII mortar was 80mm, and the Russian 82mm... the British used a 3" (or 76mm)
The Shuri Castle mission in the Okinawa campaign of CoD: World at War directly cribs that mortar tossing scene from Saving Private Ryan, except I think you're tossing Japanese mortar shells in that one. Same principle, though.
Would love to see one about the B-4, Stalin's Sledgehammer
There was a paratrooper at Arnhem using a mortar as a hand held grenade launcher, he survived and had a long and successful life..
I remember legs and arms flying around and the red mists
I haven't seen a B4 howitzer in a movie yet
A R I S A K A
Very happy to see Go For Broke! get namedropped. One of my favorite WWII movies.
It was my first time watching it for me. Much better than expected.
The Lost Battalion 👍
Very realistic when all the enemy soldiers scream together after the mortar round goes off in 'None so Few' about as realistic as hitting them without a sight or baseplate on the mortar
I agree about the particular scene. However, in 2007 I had to reclassify as an 11C3, from 11B3. I learned to be quite accurate out to 800meters with a 60mm mortar, no bipod, nor sight, just the tube, and the smaller "assault" baseplate.
Similar to "Kentucky Windage" with an M203 grenade launcher.
God Bless the American Tax Payers, who paid for all the ammo so my Men and I could become proficient with our weapons before deploying!
Is the M3 Halftrack on your list? Since you did the German kfz halftrack?
Absolutely! Maybe in a month or so
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq gotcha
We have an M3 on display in my city. It came in the early 90s, is now behind bars so you can look but not touch, and the stories about who acquired it and why it's here vary wildly.
ps- Another great vid, Johnny, scenes and facts. I need to speed up watching movies or you're gonna drown me, though.
Also some interesting facts:- the soviets received a lot of M3 and M5 half tracks as land lease during WW2. They were so impressed with its performance compared to their local and captured German models that they took every details of it and used it in the development of their MT-LB armored tractor + APC . So in a way, an American half track with the same purpose inspired the Soviets in designing their own , but amphibious too. Soviets as usual.
When ur tanks are so bad that light mortars can one shot it:
This post was made by Iwo Jima marines gang.
This illustrates the ranges in which modern combat usually takes place, at least a mile or more. (There are many notable exceptions in the Pacific in WWII, in Vietnam, and in urban warfare in the war on terror). Longer range weapons like mortars and machine guns do a big share of the killing.
I'm not sure that is right. One of the main reasons that militarys around the world have been adopting weaker and weaker cartridges since WW2. Is because they realised that standard engagement range, is around 300 metres.
@@piney4562 That's right, that's about 1000 yards, which is over a half mile. At that range you can barely make out someone standing in the open. People think that combat takes place at ranges like in a police shootout. You would need a rifle scope or binoculars to see them clearly. A modern army would try to locate the enemy, keep them pinned down, and then call in an artillery or air strike to destroy them.
@@djolley61 Well sure, but artillery and airt strikes, are out of the scope of this discussion. Mortars are ok, arguably a form of artillery, but very much platoon level fire support. They aren't really the tool for a preliminary bombardment. They are there to either keep an enemy position pinned down, and so allow the infantry to assault it. Or to force the enemy out of certain positions.
Especially seeing as mortars are very limited in range, a WW2 mortar could not be expected to fire over 1.5 miles.
@@djolley61 err recheck your maths dude.
1000 yrds is 914.4 meters.
@@djolley61 umm 300 meters is NOT about 1000 yards.It's 328 only.
Since seeing this mortar in Band of Brothers and the Pacific, every time I drop empty cans into those recycling boxes I think to myself “hang it- fire!”
Great vid, well thought out and researched. I was a Mortar crew member for my entire US Army enlistment - however I was always assigned to 81mm mortars in Weapons Platoons and we were never equipped with the much smaller M2. This was a long time ago and some of my memories are pretty slim but I do remember how much effort was required to hump - means carry - individual pieces of the weapon in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Now, the 81 was quit a bit heavier than the M2 and one man could not have carried more than one part of the gun for any distance and rounds which came in several different flavors were another matter entirely. Im sure there were Mortar Platoons that really chewed up the VietCong but in my whole year of carrying one or another of those 81mm gun parts we never fired our weapon in actual combat although we carried one gun along with several rounds everywhere we moved. Now we did set up and fire our gun every time we set up for the night and if in or on an established Landing Zone we could be sure to fire several boxes of HE or Illumination but again on a Search and Destroy mission we would Zero our gun in and fire but in combat in the boonies the 81 became a heavy piece of equipment that we never fired!
Thanks for sharing your experience. It means a lot to me to get feedback and hear experience from veterans. Mortars are kind of a complicated thing to anyone who hasn't used them, myself included.
I second Johnny's thanks. I love finding stories like yours in the comments.
Thanks for the interesting video Johnny.
Ahhh the morter 19, a formidable weapon of war! Anyway, good stuff as always Johnny!
Lol man this video gave me so many issues. Should all be resolved now.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq all for a simple life personally, like the tongue in cheek issues comment ...
"BECAUSE YOU JUST KILLED TWO OF YOUR BEST BUDDIES, MEANWHILE TOJO AND FU*K FACE OVER THERE CONTINUE TO HOSE OUR LINE"
Best line in the whole series really
" tojo and fvkface " lol those lines always cracks me up with laughter 😂.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I like the "Slap a Jap" monologue.
I have had the opportunity to fire a few rds from a 60mm mortar and two things struck me at the time. The concussion is a real smack in the face. They are not really "loud" but your head is right near the muzzle when you drop the bomb and it feels like your whole body was punched at the same time. The other thing is the rounds seem to take an eternity to reach their target. Since they're pointed at a steep angle, they fly very high in the air before starting to drop to the ground and it seem to take forever. I'm just guessing because I never timed it but I'd say 10-15 seconds from launch to landing.
Thanks for some added insight Minute Man!
2.6k views only? you are absolutely criminally underrated!
Thanks PVT Potato! On the way up I hope :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq It certainly went up...
Cheese charges are good eating paired with a fresh whiz wheel.
Cheesy come, cheesy go
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq that is a crime against cheese bores everywhere...
Episode dedicated to underbarrel grenade launchers would be cool, of course M203 would take the spotlight but maybe you can find examples of other such launchers like russian GP-25.
You remember a RT channel video of Kadyrovsty and Russian police using GP 25 on a building b against a terror attack in Grozny back in 2015 maybe?
Also M203 has great advantage over GP 25 in terms of range and longevity in service with M203 being breech loaded and. GP-25. Being Muzzle loaded.
Also the Indian PSU (public) ARDE (Military) made their own ARDE 40mm Grenade launcher for the INSAS and AR M1 rifles which like the M203 is breech loaded .
That's on my list! Will be a fun video when I get to it
In the Korean war, some US grenadiers used mortar rounds as rifle grenades, I was surprised to find that the Garand could endure that recoil, you can find some pictures and history about it in the internet, as it seems it was indeed effective.
Never used one for real but have used plenty while reenacting including 60mm and 82mm, and it always leaves me with two impressions. 1st no matter how much I try to learn I can never comprehend how they are aimed, and 2nd I'm bloody glad I never have had to use them for real as their heavy and cumbersome. Especially the base plate that often bounces into you're leg when running and can cause serious injuries due to the spikes on the underside. Excellent video once again.
Didn't the Germans call their mortars "Granatenwerfer"?
In WW1 and WW2 they did. The post WW2 west german army use Mörser (Mortar - literal translation).
Gets funny occasionally. Because the citizens of the german city of"Moers" near Duisburg (> 100.000 inhabitants) are also "Moerser" (The OE is spoken Ö) since in germany "City Name"´+er ie Krefeld´+er => Krefelder is a common way to refer to a city inhabitant
Amongs all the games i've played, CoH series have the best depiction of mortars, absolutely love using them on CoH2 since they're like a mini artillery
I love company of warcriminals especially the mortar half-track with incendiary rounds
@@EnclaveChad Hell yeah, I love using sdkfz 250 (I think) with mortars as fire support while waiting to get my own tanks
@@AHappyCub the panzer elite is basically the meme of CoH but i love the stuff you get to play with. Because incendiary rounds go brrr
@@EnclaveChad one strats that I love to do is go Inf commander as US and span M4A3 76 mid to late game considered how US can de-crew this reducing pop
@@AHappyCub the on i love to use is spam mortar half-track's and marder's. And when I get Hummel's I'll just casually bomb the enemy base because map-wide range go brrr
I just finished rewatching the Pacific today so it was great this episode came out when it did!
I met a mortarman once, the coolest thing he told me is that the mortar calls the use to this day, "Hanging, Fire" date dat to the first mortars and mortars date back to the 1400s
Ahhh yes the M2 Mortar or as I like to call them in Company of Heroes the gods of war
Behold my 2S4 Tyulpan... Soviet Engineering.
How bout the lee Enfield rifle
Nice video Johnny I would love to see a video on the browning m1919
Nearing the top of my list :)
That Hot Shots Part Deux line is one of my all time favorites 👍🏻
3:03 War is fantastic that's so weird
I have to work it into more videos lol
@@hunglengocbao3469 that actors voice just sells it so great. Like, it really is Fantastic to him
Can you do the type 89 Japanese "knee mortar" next? Thanks you for making these high quality videos!
Thanks man! It's on my list. Not a ton of footage but will give it a go.
“Lieutenant Johnson, thinks that this scene, is a can of peaches. That is incorrect lieutenant, your weekend pass is canceled. This, is United States Army property, that was taken, from my mess facility without authorization.”
Johnny: in GO FOR BROKE, about 30 minutes into the movie, two Germans ambush a group of GIs drinking wine. The German enlisted man is firing a G43 semiauto rifle; the German officer is firing a .45ACP Reising SMG made up to resemble a MP40. This same mock-up was later used in the COMBAT! TV series.
Beauty I'll make note of this for a future video
I've never seen a mortar in a movie fired anything other than charge zero.
IIRC in the "Green Berets" they have the reporter "pull charges" (maybe only in the book) during the firebase siege
You should do the the ak47
Good old indirect fire 💥
Alsoe the mortar granades shrapnels(120mm) has a kill radius of 50m and it can wound peoples even 200m away. this is always wrong in the movies. I have experience of leading a 120mm mortar team and its always nice fealing when you fire that weapon :D
The Chinese have also copies of the M2 mortar as the Type 31 (made during the republic of China / Nationalists rule ) and Type 63 and 63-1 ( lighter and increased range by PLA) .
North Korea still uses the Type 31 copy .And Vietnam has all three of them.
Some Interesting M2 Mortar facts :-
The Chinese have also copies of the M2 mortar as the Type 31 (made during the republic of China / Nationalists rule ) and Type 63 and 63-1 ( lighter and increased range by PLA) .
North Korea still uses the Type 31 copy .And Vietnam has all three of them.
The South Africans also improvised ( lightweight and longer range ) French service copy of the M2 mortar as the M-4 commando Paratrooper mortar.
The Yugoslavs were also a primary user of the M2 mortar recieved during WW2 and informbiro period and they made a local copy called the 60mm M57 mortars. Both Mortars saw widespread service during the Yugoslav wars in all fronts (Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Kosovo) .
Another Interesting fact :-
In comparison the British have their own "60mm M2 counterpart" as the 51mm Light Mortar /ordinance SBML Two inch mortar or simply "two inch mortar". This is still in use in the Armies of South Asia including India , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal , Burma and Myanmar.
Another :-
Also the Japanese during WW2 have the type 89 and lighter Type 10 "knee mortar" as the standard grenade and flare discharger despite a mortar like appearance. Despite their name , they are not to be fired from the knee, which pretty much resulted in many injuries for the Marines and an easy excuse for them if a tired marine want to take some rest ,just injure the damn knee with the knee Mortar.
So when are you doing the knee mortar and two inch mortar?
Roblox gameplay to finish the video, amazing
Another great video. I have always wanted to know more about how you aimed a mortar--aiming stakes, that little sight thingy, increments...
"A Can of Peaches" i love that movie
Great video. I was training at Ft. Bragg and saw a demonstration on mortars. A team of 2 mortar men fired a succession of 81 mm rounds at a road in the distance, changing the elevation of each round. When they hit a series of explosions erupted along the road. Had there been enemy troops or vehicles along the road they would have been taken out. My hat is off to the men who had that skill.
Did you hit "Tojo" and "Fuckface"?
I absolutely love The Pacific for depicting the mortar team. I have always been interested in mortar men, and this series was everything I ever wanted
Yay new video its fun seeing facts of these weapons and seeing movies that these weapons are featured in
I got you!
To this day, me and my friends joke about the time when we played Call of Duty World at War co-op, and we would spam throw the mortar shells at Japanese troops. My friend kept complaining about how it nearly crashed his PC.
Getting shot by anything larger than a nerf dart can lead to a significant emotional event, thou you may not be around to witness it.
4:50 "Lieutenant Johnny thinks this is a can of peaches. That is incorrect lieutenant your weekend pass is cancelled." Great video as always!
Thanks brother. Glad you found my Easter egg :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I absolutely love those easter eggs you put up with Band of Brothers :) I do not look for them actively since I know when a clip from it is shown so I bet I missed some in the past...
@@Lehr-km5be lol though sometimes my Easter Eggs are a genuine mislabel too.
By far the most realistic depiction had to be Roblox D-Day
Another quality video. Keep them coming.
I would "like" your videos, but youtube removed any sort of ranking. I refuse to place every video in the same category because I liked it, so I reserve "liked" to videos I really really like(d) and is quite rare.
Thanks Harry! Commenting is helpful too. I will try to earn your "Like" in a future video :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You should make a subscribestar.
I'd give you some cash every month to provide the same content I am now getting for free. I bet a significant number of people would, too.
Thanks Harry. I'll to figure that out one day.
Dropping a round down the tube only to have it sit at the bottom and smoke would be the scariest sh** ever. That scene in Pacific stresses me out every time
The Romanian army in World War II was equipped at company level with the same 60 mm mortar model as the American one. Towards the end of the war, in the western campaign after August 23, 1944, in order to be able to respond more quickly to the request for fire support, some Romanian soldiers gave up the bipod and base plate and used only the barrel, similar to the Japanese-American soldier from min 9:21. To avoid burns on the hand caused by prolonged use of the mortar in this way, they used special gloves.
Eugene Sledge was a marine mortar crew from red beach to Okinawa he never received a purple heart , and yet like all soldiers they hounded with PTSD for rest of their lives.
weapons company 3rd battallion 1st marines 81mm mortars hurah!
Hell ya. Thanks for checking out my video man. Much respect.
I like the Roblox gameplay with the mortar at the end 🤣
I was a 60 amd 81mm mortarman with 2 tours in Iraq. Just wanted to say. Prettymuch spot on with the depictions/use/limitations/advantages/mechanics ect. I very much appreciated the inclusion of the fact all light mortarmen are just riflemen half of the time, and the use of Add on suplemental charges for extended range. However. Its a bit backwards. The rounds themselves come with the additional charges already attatched. You Remove them to get the range youre after, not add them. They have 4 charges on them with the base charge in the stem of the round. We rairly fire at charge 4. Usually 2 or 3. And never above charge 1 or 2 for handheld mode ( which ia a real thing even today that we train for. Your vid shows pretty good depiction of handheld mode at the 9:33 mark) Charge Zero is what you see in most war movies which is for Danger Close missions. But the funny looking charges dont look as sexy on film so most movies always show the bare rounds at charge zero. But it rairly reflects the ranges fired on screen I wish movies reflected that. You definitely did your research. Tho I would have added a few comparisons to modern 60mm mortars as many viewers still have misconceptions about their use. For example. Mortars are no longer efective in engaging armored vehicals. As the armor on most modern tanks/APCs is now thicker and made of modern materials, with add on reactive armor packages avaliable. While they could in theory still damage the tracks or wheels making it less mobile. The current doctrine jokingly says "the only way to kill a tank with a mortar is drop a round down the open hatch" however it is still VERY usefull in engaging Infantry support for armored sections. And you can still use White Phosphorus rounds for smoke screens, and catching shit on fire. Tanks still dont like being engulfed in flames and they cant shoot at what they cant see. Also modern mortar rounds "at least ones used by developed nations" can no longer be used like hand grenades. You cant take a modern round slam it on something hard and chuck it at the enemy. Nothing will happen. For the saftey of mortar crews the way the rounds arm has changed. So you cant accidently blow yourself up by dropping the round on the ground. People still think you can do this with rounds today, since nothing in pop culture/content/film has told them otherwise. Over all I enjoyed the vid and Im a huge nerd about Mortars I could talk about this shit all day lol.
I love mortars, like american mortars, german mortars. Idk about japanese. Was there a japanese mortar?
Yes there were and heavy ones too. In 81mm , 90mm , 120mm and 240mm .
Plus the Soviets and Germans have gigachad mortars . The Soviets went further with inventing an automatic magazine feed mortar called the 82mm 2B9 vasilek and my favourite 240mm 2S4 Tyulpan (Russian for Tulip) which are blasting Ukraine as well as blasting by in Ukraine right now as I type.
Oh ok
Nearly every time I teach a class on mortars I get asked if tossing mortars by hand is still possible. Dumbest question I was asked is if we can take out air support with mortars. The only answer I could give is while yes its possible one of our rounds could hit a helicopter or something flying low we would not be aiming for it. I have experience firing the m252 81mm and m224 60mm mortar.
1980年にJAPAN、GSDF 自衛隊入隊して M１ 81ミリ迫撃砲で訓練を受けました 中隊に配属されたら type64、81ミリ 迫撃砲の訓練を受けました🙋
Go for Broke (1951) isn't so much "progressive" as representive of the American need during the Korean War/early Cold War for the Japanese (and Japanese Americans) to be seen as allies instead of enemies. It's the same (though a bit later) with Fuji in McHale's Navy.
Johnny Johnson thinks this is a can of peaches, that is incorrect johnny your weekend pass is revoked.
I read somewhere that mortars killed more combatants than any other weapon which sounds about right. They were also often used in denying an enemy ground ie you’d fire at a hill top so the bad guys would see that should they venture up they’d get dead very quickly.
Great vid. Tricky one done very well.
Machine Gun & Mortar These are Backbone of Infantry weapons
In Company of Heroes Blitzkrieg mod I prefer capturing German 80mm mortars. They're better.
Thank you for bringing light to mortars, I operated the M30 4.2" mortar during the cold war and gulf war. Pro Patria
M2 flamethrower?!?
I keep trying that but it gets so damn violent lol. I'll figure it out.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq My Favourite are the Russian ones.
1) starter packet , use the RPO A SHmel
2) Gigachad Russian pack , use the TOS -1 A Buratino aka Burrito burner for me.
Can you do a USAS-12 in Movies and TV Shows Please?
Maybe slightly off topic, but I always wondered which one is the mortar and which is the pestle. Turns out The little bowl is the mortar and the grinding nub is the pestle.
I would love to see m2 browning 50 cal machine gun p51 fighter plane and maybe tiger tank and battleship Yamato
@1:33, Sound of puum? I always heard more of a POONK from them. I would have liked to have seen the 'dud' removal from the tube.
I thought this video got deleted at first glance, but good thing it was reupload
Wait wait..what ? This one's a re-upload?
I had to make it private than get it reviewed by a studio. Luckily they released the footage for me to use so all is well.... for now...
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq ah the scourge of litigation...poor young Sina ,the celebrated German rock drummer has copyright lawyers hounding her over her TH-cam videos..
Using 60mm mortar rounds as grenades is part of the MoH citation for Charles E. Kelly.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Kelly_(soldier)
4:46 US ARMY MAP SYMBOL it's interesting first sergeant mark on the radio antenna mark?
Nice one, trained on the old 2 inch mortar back in the day. Got quite good at it too
Still in service with a lot of commonwealth armies.
How about the commando mortar,m4 , with carrying handle, base plate and bubble sights.
1:23 the rest of that scene is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen.
I disagree with the US Army and US Marines removing the 60mm from the MTOE for the troops.
One of the advantages of using a small round is that the fratricide if a 60mm round of friendly attacking troops is much more forgiving for a given range than a 100mm+ howitzer round can be. Hence, a 60mm round can be used for longer time to suppress a position before the barrage is lifted relatively speaking as troops assault a position
If anybody wonders what the game with mortar was, it was roblox d-day i highly recommend playing it or at least trying
Call of Duty World at War also used the throwing mortar shells feature
Private Johnny thinks this is a can of peaches. Wrong, your weekend pass is revoked.
I'm guessing 'Mulligan's Mortars' from Kelly's Hero's were M-1s...
I've noticed that many people misspell the word as 'morter/motor', instead of 'mortar'.
you have very intresting videos - subscribed 😀👍
Thanks man! Welcome to the channel
in korean war movies they called mortormen "plumbers" for obvious reasons.
Let's be honest - that japanese tank never had a chance. It was going up against John Wayne.
in Bf3 and in Bf4 the support soldier could use a mortar. I just googled it, its the M224. Is this the successor of the M2?
It sure is!
i LOOVE WW2 and all the vids you make of weapons and gear from it. but if you ever decide to change it up for a spell, i'd love to see some Old West movies and firearms as well, Colt Single-Action Army revolvers and Lever-Actions and whatnot, probably the Gatling Gun and it's variants as well, stuff like that!
I did a Derringer video and have an older Gatling gun video that needs to be remade. I like Westerns so will do more in the near future!
You can tell from the comments many people still don't "get it" about mortars. Wikipedia, people, Wikipedia! This video was OK explaining mortars, but not great, but it wasn't an Army instruction video either, so "not bad." Mortars are a technical weapon that takes a fair amount of training to use well. The basics of mortar gunnery takes about 4-6 weeks. To learn how to actually direct the fire of a mortar platoon takes another 3 or 4 weeks and you have to have a fair aptitude for math. Learning how to spot targets and call in fire for mortars and artillery takes another 6 weeks or so because land navigation and map reading is absolutely critical for the job. And, of course all these phases take some real field practice to get good and your guess is as good as mine as to how long that will take. 13F MOS was just coming in to the Army system as I was getting out so I don't know how long TRADOC recommended for training forward observers/FO's/FIST teams.
Thanks for adding this! I'm at best qualified for a general introduction on the topics I discuss on this channel so I appreciate hearing from people such as yourself.
Hot shots... Haha thats awesome. You always be smacking me with nostalgia movies
A very informative video, Johnny.
Would be interesting to see if a movie actually shows a guy getting hit by a mortar shell blowing prematurely while using it as a grenade. Be a nice variation.
I always thought about how difficult it would be for paratroopers to set up mortars after a chaotic paradrop, like d day. Since you need five people to man a singe mortar, and chances are the paratroopers would be extremely scattered, mortar support would be nonexistent.
I remember that according to veteran accounts during DDay they simply merged the split up squads on the go, as there was no real difference at that moment if a soldier was in one squad or the other.
And simillar to other squad weapons, worst case scenario you need just one trained man to operate it. Squad is for the ease of use and mobility basically. So i assume some riflemen were simply designated as temporary mortar operators, to carry the stuff and listen to the specialists instructions on the go when necessary. Not as efficient, but better than nothing.
Also remember that usually for indirect fire, rule is that if you hit on third try (ie. one far, one short, hit) its good enough (well, it was before targeting computers). If You hit on 2nd shot/salvo you are good (German naval artillery crews on warships were expected to hit moving target on 2nd salvo).
Sledge who is mentioned here, claimed that he could hit a target at 200 meters directly on a first try, so he would be exceptional at this job for that time.
I sometimes wonder if Mortars were originated from when Napoleon used to use artillery at close range, Mortars might be the simpler and modern version of that tactic
They predate Napoleon. He used field guns firing grapeshot. Actually by the time of the Napoleonic war the mortar in general was mostly out of favor.
As a Marine 0341 I approve of this video! Semper Fi!