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	German Mortars of WW1 - by WL Ruffell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1916 a heavier version of the 25-cm minenwerfer was produced weighing 770 kg (1693 lbs) which fired the longer (94 kg) projectile up to 1000 metres (1094 yards).
		With the advent of tanks in 1917 some minenwerfer were modified to fire horizontally.
		As a short-range piece of trench artillery the minenwerfer was very efficient and was widely used throughout World War 1.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/mortar/mort11a.htm (233 words)

	Füsilier Regiment 73 - Minenwerfer Section Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Minenwerfer Abteillung formed in the infantry regiment to provide administrative and training of the 12 minenwerfer crews.
		Because of the shortage of troops the number of leichte minenwerfer authorized for an infantry battalion is reduced to 4.
		The number of leichte minenwerfers in the infantry regiment minenwerfer company is reduced by half because of the lack of ammunition.
	www.fusregt73.net /Minenewerfers.htm (606 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Trench Mortars
		The German mortars at the start of the war - translated into German as 'minenwerfer' (literally 'mine-thrower') had been designed in 1908-09 and, at a monster-size 25 cm, were rifled mortars mounted upon field carriages (each mortar of this size weighed approximately 95 kg).
		Germany's allies by and large relied upon German minenwerfer designs throughout the war, which were always skilfully-produced.
		Special minenwerfer battalions were created at the outset of the war that were used to reinforce given sectors at short notice at the disposal of GHQ.
	firstworldwar.com /weaponry/mortars.htm (1327 words)

	Great War diaries: 1/8th Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
		A minenwerfer was found to have returned and was doing much damage to the trenches on our left.
		Minenwerfer paid its usual visit at about noon and the usual artillery and maxim gun retaliation was accorded it.
		Minenwerfer again active during afternoon and evening just after dark, this latter point is very unusual.
	www.1914-1918.net /Diaries/wardiary-8warwicks.htm (4151 words)

	German heavy machine-guns; mortars; artillery.
		The 25-cm minenwerfer was a rifled muzzle-loading mortar firing a shell with a pre-engraved driving band.
		All three minenwerfer were mobile with the wheels being removed on coming into action.
		The 7.6-cm minenwerfer differed from both the 25-cm and 17-cm in its ammunition and method of firing.
	www.firstaif.info /42/level2/weapons/artillery-german.htm (561 words)

	The German 7.85cm Light Minenwerfer
		It was used everywhere, and was the weapon that supported the German Infantry in all situations, especially during trench fighting, when traditional flat trajectory weapons often were at an disadvantage.
		This had a bedding that was circular at the front and square at the back, and had also a traverse plate, making it possible to move the piece 360 degrees around.
		This led to more and more Minenwerfers being issued to the troops, and it soon became apparent that the Engineers were unable to cope with this numerous weapon, so in the winter of 1916-17, it was organization-wise allocated to the Infantry.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /7.85cm_leichtes_minenwerfer.htm (717 words)

	Frontline18 .:. German 'Minenwerfer' and 'Granatwerfer' mortars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A total 44 of these weapons were secretly completed until the start of the war and together with the super-heavy 28 cm, 30.5 cm and 42 cm mortars of the artillery they formed the backbone of the German siege train.
		Despite all advantages the 'Minenwerfer' had under trench war conditions, they continued to be second rate weapons until the end of 1916.
		With the end of the First World War the history of the of the 'Minenwerfer' and 'Granatwerfer' reached a sudden end: The 25 cm sMW 16 classed as heavy artillery under the terms of the Versailles Treaty and therefor the Reichswehr was not allowed to have them anymore.
	www.battlefield1918.de /history/253 (1259 words)

	Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums - Imperial ordnance, Part 1: The 76 mm Leichte Wurfmine (light mortar mine)
		The Minenwerfer (launcher) used for it was the Leichter Minenwerfer 16.
		The fuses on the minenwerfer 76mm tend to also vary the early 1915-16 models tend to be all brass or bronze construction then slowly in 1917 various elements were made of white metal components or grey metal ending in later models being totally a mix of white metal and grey metal parts.
		The safety caps vary also on the dates of manufacture ie the early ones had a single bar safety with a bayonet fitted safety cap on top latter 1917 models changed to a two pin and ring safety with a safety cap that screwed on the threaded top of the grey metal mounts.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/printthread.php?t=45989&pp=40 (915 words)

	Cannons Sold
		It is one of the few original German Mortars or cannons that we have seen that is in this pristine condition.
		Also developed as a light artillery piece, the 7.6mm Light Minenwerfer was initially transported on a carriage, and this combination was pulled by either horse or vehicle.
		Eventually discarding the carriage as a means of transport, the weapon would then be transported by three of the crew simply by adding the carriage wheels to the axle on the base plate and securing shoulder straps between the weapon' base plate and the three crew members and then man-pulled from position to position.
	bronzecannon.net /wwonesold.htm (714 words)

	Battlefield relics - phototour, part 5 (The Western Front Museum)
		Two pieces, bottom part and side fragment, of a German 170mm trenchmortar (minenwerfer) with alloy driving-band still in place.
		This - in 1915 introduced - minenwerfer was smoothbore and fired a thin steel body grenade with wooden re-inforced base and small leather band around the base which acted as driving-band.
		The empty cilinder and base plates were put there for the picture as illustration, the life (complete) one was as it was found (do not touch).
	home.hetnet.nl /~supersmit/ww1/phototour5.html (223 words)

	Australian Light Horse Association Forum
		A minenwerfer is a large calibre morter that fires a very large thin walled shell on a high trajectory.
		Just to add to Austin's comments, minenwerfer translates as mine-thrower- a trench mortar.The German Army had light, medium and heavy Minenwerfers.
		According to a Canadian Corps report, dated 28 october, 1917, based on a captured German Official textbook "Die Minenwerfer", dated 1 July, 1917, this weapon had a calibre of 24cm.
	www.lighthorse.org.au /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2073 (308 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		The minenwerfer was a German trench warfare weapon of the Great War, the fore-runner of the trench mortar.
		The original minenwerfers were complex short-range breech-loading howitzers, but these were gradually supplemented by simpler muzzle-loading mortars which took the same name.
		The German minenwerfer was an early and complex design, but the archetypal early mortar was the British Stokes design of 1915.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM (15666 words)

	Mémorial du chemin des dames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This was the target of the German attack the started January 25, 1915 and whose success was strategic for the continuation of the war on the Chemin des Dames.
		After a short but intense artillery preparation with 150 canons and 11 minenwerfer that pounded a 500-meter wide sector, the assault began at 14.00 hours (French time).
		It was headed mainly by the Saxon troops: the 103rd Infantry Regiment in the center, the 102nd to the left around the farm of Hurtebise, and to the right, near the tree of Paissy, a mixed regiment composed of two battalions of the159e Prussian regiment and a Saxon battalion.
	www.chemindesdames.fr /batailles2.asp?lang=ang&bataille_id=2 (317 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Armistice
		Notably, all German-occupied territories elsewhere were to be abandoned; and the treaties already negotiated with Russia and Romania were officially annulled (the Russian peace treaty in particular had been denounced by Trotsky as annexationist in character).
		In terms of military equipment, under the terms of the armistice the Germans lost 5,000 artillery pieces, 30,000 machine guns, 3,000 minenwerfer, 2,000 aircraft, 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 railway wagons, 5,000 trucks and its entire submarine fleet.
		The majority of Germany's surface naval fleet were interned; the remainder were disbanded.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/armistice.htm (830 words)

	Untitled Document
		He was carrying a supply of cigarettes, postcards and chocolate for the Italian soldiers.
		A projectile, the size of a five gallon tin and filled with steel rod fragments and miscellaneous metal junk, was sent by the Austrian Minenwerfer crews.
		Hemingway was chatting with Italian soldiers when it exploded in their midst.
	www.art.uiuc.edu /courses/spring06/arts440m4u/students/quinnKatherine/project2/page2.htm (521 words)

	Restoration of a German Minenwiffer
		In Dunedin New Zealand the Otago branch of the NZ Antique Arms Assn. is in the process of restoring an Imperial German 175 m/m Minenwerfer.
		The 1916 dated Minenwerfer we are restoring was originally presented to a small coastal Otago town where it remained on display from 1922 until 1959, when it was removed and sold for scrap.
		We were lucky in having a further 175 m./m minenwerfer donated to us, also of 1916 manufacture.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /utah/894/resminewf.htm (501 words)

	German Light Mortars during WW1
		The German army had, contrary to the British army, foreseen the new order of warfare, and had invested in the development of trench mortars.
		In 1916 the German artillery was reorganised, and with this came new weapons.
		The old ‘Minenwerfer’ were replaced by a new generation.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /adh_germart1_l-mortars.htm (774 words)

	German Stormtroopers (First World War) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		These were assault troops trained in squads as trench fighters and formed by individual regiments from 1915 with the Sturm-Bataillone being developed in late 1915 early 1916.
		Each of these Sturm-Bataillone consisted of 2-4 companies with a machine gun, flame-thrower and mortar or Minenwerfer companies.
		This raised the old and still on going argument against elite formations, that is that by concentrating the best men in these companies the quality of the normal infantry decreased, this led to most of these storm battalions being broken up.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_stormtrooper.html (127 words)

	Mortar Round, 91mm HE, LANZ, German, WWI - Inert-Ord.Net
		In the early years of WWI Germany was late to embrace the idea of a small portable mortar for infantry and the
		The Minenwerfer is a class of muzzle-loaded mortar artillery which were not drop-fired, but had a trigger mechanism, and generally were smooth bore.
		Worth noting in the photo above, besides the Minenwerfer, are two stick grenades, variations of the French Pétards Raquettes, Mle.1915.
	www.inert-ord.net /gerimp/lanz (438 words)

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		As soon as work was over we returned to the copse and slept, for at dusk that night we were to go once more to the line and relieve the Lincolnshires in "50" to "A7." Maple Copse had cost us altogether 35 killed and wounded.
		On the 16th August we went once more to the line for a six-day tour, which proved to be the first in which our artillery began to show a distinct superiority to the enemy's, not only in accuracy but in weight of shell.
		The accuracy of these large Howitzers was surprising, and they obtained several direct hits on the Boche front line, the resulting display of flying sandbags and trench timbers being watched with the utmost pleasure by almost every man in the Battalion.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/17369/17369-8.txt (21163 words)

	Before 1919 ... German 91.3 mm Minenwerfer Lanz
		The German 91.3 mm Minenwerfer Lanz was put into production in 1915 and fired rounds, called the 'glatte Granatmine H.L.'.
		Inside the projectile is a tin plate container which is crimped over the screwed in ogive and is stabilized by a thick felt pad at the base.
		The range of the Lanz Minenwerfer varied between 75 and 450 meters, depending on the type of projectile used.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /utah/894/lanz.htm (390 words)

	Frontline18 .:. British 3in Stokes Trench Mortar Mark I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Therefore in 1914, when the war began and got stuck in the trench war after a few months, almost no army had mortars to destroy the enemies' increasingly powerful field fortifications.
		As a result, towards the end of 1914, the Allied powers hastily tried to develop a useful and mobile high angle weapon to counter the 'Minenwerfer'.
		The French for example took some old mortars out of the arsenals dating back to the Crimean War and the British developed an improvised grenade thrower from water tubes welded shut on one side.
	www.battlefield1918.de /history/257 (1071 words)

	Forums at the Society - Trench Mortar
		But they look to be a heavy affair.
		7.85cm lMW (leichter Minenwerfer) n.A. 78.6mm LMW (Light Mine Projector) New Model (I think it is actually called a 76mm or 77mm.)
		Note the crew “en bricole.” I think the guy with the shovel has the easiest job.
	www.militaryhorse.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4881 (280 words)

	Amazon.ca: Verdun 1916: They Shall Not Pass': Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Infantry platoons were not "all arms formations" as the author asserts (nor are modern infantry platoons), and the handful of the new infantry support weapons were concentrated at company, battalion or regimental level.
		Certainly the dreaded German Minenwerfer was too heavy to be carried around by assault infantry platoons.
		Also, the author notes that the German 21st Infantry Division attacked with four full-strength regiments with a total of 12 battalions of infantry, but a "square" division only had 8 infantry battalions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275982947 (1318 words)

	Great War Memorial to men from Machen (Wales) - Walter Jenkins (Welsh Regiment)
		Having no bombs the enemy moved up gradually from both flanks.
		The enemy opened up with a minenwerfer shell this is what the soldiers call “sausage up”.
		The shell, having reached the distance it is regulated for, drops down perpendicularly and can be seen all the way and can be dodged – the men were now so congested it was impossible to get out of the way.
	www.jrawl.co.uk /jenkins.htm (527 words)

	Authentic Campaigner Website & Forums - View Single Post - Hale Rocket Attack
		What they had left over from the march on Washington, they shot at Fort McHenry near Baltimore a few weeks later.
		Similar weapons were revived in the Great War and WWTwice, called the Minenwerfer by the Germans and the "Screaming Meemies" by the Allies.
		Soviet-style artillery relies heavily upon them with the MRL battalions, and Uncle Sam now has the M270 MLRS...
	www.authentic-campaigner.com /forum/showpost.php?p=645&postcount=8 (315 words)

	"Forward-March!" a photographic memorial of World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		German machine gun nests were in trees overlooking the road.
		170 mm., Minenwerfer or mine thrower, fired 150 pound shells, range about 3000 yds.
		Photo by U. official photographer who, dressed in the field gray uniform of the enemy, with his miniature camera cleverly concealed, wriggled back across No Man's Land at night, and lived to develp his negatives.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/dav2a/pg402.htm (77 words)

	Mortars
		Mortars had existed as a form of heavy artillery for centuries, but in 1914 the German Army introduced a limited number of small, cheap, portable minenwerfers, which were breech-loading, low-trajectory mortars.
		Other armies quickly copied the minenwerfer, and in March 1915, the English engineer Wilfred Stokes developed the grandfather of all current infantry mortars, the 3-inch muzzle-loading Stokes mortar.19 This weapon was much simpler to manufacture than artillery and therefore was employed extensively in all armies during the war.
		All maneuver units require indirect fire to win.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/mortars.htm (1491 words)

	HaT 1/72 WWI German Heavy Weapons
		Later in the war many other, interesting weapons were developed for infantry and supplied to the frontline units.
		That stuff included various machine guns lighter than Spandau 08, grenade launchers (called "Granatenwerfer"), trench mortars ("Minenwerfer"), flamethrowers, anti-tank rifles and even first machine pistols, especially suitable for short-range trench warfare on the Western Front.
		HaT again provided us with pretty unusual set of figures: German WWI Heavy Weapons - set of various very interesting trench-warfare hardware with crews: gunners, loaders, aimers and commanders.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2005/october/first-looks/HaT_WWI.php (477 words)

	German 7.6cm Minenwerfer (Light Mortar) and 4 Man Detachment - W. Britain - Collectiques.co.uk for Miniature Metal ...
		German 7.6cm Minenwerfer (Light Mortar) and 4 Man Detachment
		German 7.6cm Minenwerfer (Light Mortar) and 4 Man Detachment - W. Britain - Collectiques.co.uk for Miniature Metal Figures
		The W. Britain tradition is over 100 years old. Carefully researched and recreated, every figure and model is a work of art in it's own right.
	www.collectiques.net /shop/catalogue/wbritain/wwi/pr/germanmortar.html (112 words)

	Toward Combined Arms Warfare: a Survey. . .
		The first such effort was the trench mortar.
		Other armies quickly copied the minenwerfer, and in March 1915, the English engineer Wilfred Stokes developed the grandfather of all current infantry mortars, the 3-inch muzzle-loading Stokes mortar.
		This weapon was much simpler to manufacture than artillery and therefore was employed extensively in all armies during the war.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/House/House.asp (20136 words)

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