05-29-2015, 03:27 PM
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My dad had personal experience with both types of tube artillery. He was an FO for a battery of 105mm howitzers during the first year of the Korean war. He was wounded by a North Korean mortar. He claimed that conventional tube artillery one could hear coming (a sound akin to the distinctive whistle and/or rumble one hears preceding the impact of artillery in war movies) but mortar bombs one typically could not, making being on the receiving end of an unexpected mortar barrage particularly terrifying.
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