Chemical mortar battalions were United States Army non-divisional units that were attached to infantry divisions during World War II. They were armed with 4.2-inch (107 mm) chemical mortars. For this reason they were also called the "Four-deucers".[1]
In 1943, General Mark Clark's Fifth Army established a policy that no infantry division would be committed to combat without a chemical mortar battalion attached. As a result, when infantry units were rotated out of combat, the mortar battalions often stayed in the line and were attached to fresh units. Chemical mortars were in such high demand that often the companies of a battalion would be split up and assigned to different divisions. On the first day that General George S. Patton's Third Army became operational, in the summer of 1944, he issued a standing order to his staff that no infantry division would be committed to combat without a chemical mortar battalion attached, and no infantry regiment would be committed without a mortar company attached.[2]
Chemicalmortarbattalions were United States Army non-divisional units that were attached to infantry divisions during World War II. They were armed with...
other weapons. Chemical soldiers were also involved in smoke generation missions. Chemicalmortarbattalions used the 4.2-inch chemicalmortar to support...
of US mortars, fifteen Sherman tanks from US 72nd Heavy Tank Battalion, two companies of the US 74th Engineer Combat Battalion and 1st Battalion, Middlesex...
3rd, and 4th U.S. Army Ranger battalions, the 83rd ChemicalMortarBattalion, and the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, which had been brigaded as the...
of a battalion zone of influence. Many countries use or have used an 81-mm mortar in their armed forces. Examples are: Canada - L16 81mm mortar Finland...
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mortar") battalions belonging to the Chemical Corps of the Heer; exactly how the American initially fielded their own 4.2 inch mortar in chemicalmortar battalions...
"smoke-mortar") battalions belonging to the Chemical Corps of the Heer; exactly how the American fielded their own M2s in chemicalmortarbattalions. It...
troops to whom they were assigned. The commander of the 87th ChemicalMortarBattalion left the note below during their advances towards La Ferté Macé...
Zealand artillery; Company C, 2nd ChemicalMortarBattalion; and the division's own 27th Field Artillery Battalion. The Corps' latest ground gains had...
The M2 mortar is a 60 millimeter smoothbore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used by U.S. forces in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam...
States Army during World War II and saw combat in France in a Chemicalmortarbattalion. He developed trench foot and was sent back to England to recover...
battalion was deactivated in September 2007, and the 84th ChemicalBattalion took over its duties. The battalion was activated as a ChemicalMortar Battalion...
552nd Antitank Company Company A, 2nd ChemicalMortarBattalion Company D (airborne), 83d ChemicalMortarBattalion 676th Medical Collecting Company Provisional...
Division, XXII Corps (from 31 March 1945 to 1 April 1945) 97th ChemicalMortarBattalion 106th Infantry Division (from 10 March 1945; after 15 April 1945...
of both Canada and the United States, and served in the 90th ChemicalMortarBattalion of the U.S. Army during the Second World War. As a musician, he...
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