The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Korea, c. 1950-10. Members of the Mortar Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), shell North Korean positions with their 3-inch mortars. The soldiers firing the mortar are turning away and blocking their ears against the noise of the weapon's discharge, while the man in the background (right) casually looks on and takes no action to protect himself from the noise. (Donor I. Robertson)
Korea, c. 1950-10. Members of the Mortar Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), shell North Korean positions with their 3-inch mortars. The soldiers are turning away and blockin
Korea, c. 1950-10. Members of the Mortar Platoon, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), shell North Korean positions with their 3-inch mortars. The soldier at left is placing a mortar r
Korea, 1950. Wearing a pile cap on his head, a member of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) (left), places a mortar bomb in the barrel of a 3-inch mortar as two other 3RAR soldier
Korea, 1950. Three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), turn away from the noise of a 3-inch mortar as it fires a mortar bomb, probably at a practice range. The soldier
Korea, c. 1951-03. A black US Army soldier (right) places a shell in the barrel of an American M2 107mm mortar prior to firing the weapon against Communist Chinese forces. Another American soldier (le
Unidentified members of a mortar platoon of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), protect their ears with their hands and turn away, as they fire a mortar which has been set up in a
