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After World War II, the U.S. War Department transferred the operations and development of chemical mortars to the Ordnance Department, in this way making the mortar an official infantry weapon. The 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion was the last of the chemical mortar battalions, and the only one to see combat after World War II.
The 3rd Chemical Brigade was first constituted on 1 January 1942 as the 3rd Chemical Battalion. [2] It was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia. The unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion on 11 March 1945. It was inactivated on 2 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.
During this battle, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th U.S. Army Ranger battalions, the 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, and the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, which had been brigaded as the 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) commanded by Colonel William O. Darby, were assigned to support the renewal of an attack by Major General Lucian Truscott's 3rd ...
World War I / World War II 280: 280 mm mortar M1939 (Br-5) Soviet Union: World War II: 280: Mortier de 280 Schneider France: World War I / World War II 293: Mortier de 293 Danois sur affut-truck modèle 1914 France: World War I / World War II 305: 12-inch coast defense mortar M1886, M1890, M1908, and M1912 United States: World War I / World War ...
V Mortar Battalion (81mm mod. 35 mortars) IX Mortar Battalion (81mm mod. 35 mortars) 9th Anti-tank Company — 8× 47/32 anti-tank guns; 141st Anti-tank Company — 8× 47/32 anti-tank guns; 9th Telegraph and Radio Operators Company; 30th Engineer Company; 95th Searchlight Section; 190th Heavy Auto Unit 813th Heavy Section; 814th Heavy Section
Company A, 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion Company D (airborne), 83d Chemical Mortar Battalion 676th Medical Collecting Company Provisional Airborne Military Police Platoon Provisional Pathfinder Detachment 172d Detail Issues Depot British Heavy Aerial Resupply Company 334th Quartermaster Depot Company(-) 3358th Quartermaster Truck Company
Pages in category "Chemical battalions of the United States Army" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list catalogues mortars which are issued to infantry units to provide close range, rapid response, indirect fire capability of an infantry unit in tactical combat. [1] In this sense the mortar has been called "infantryman's artillery", and represents a flexible logistic solution [clarification needed] to the problem of satisfying unexpected need for delivery of firepower, particularly for ...