We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_whatziss_re_1.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:22:43 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A Laurel, and Hearty Handshake to Old Fat Sailor and Mongo for getting it right. It is, indeed, a round for the WWI 3" Stokes mortar. This woulda been your next clue if we'd needed one. But OFS and Mongo took care of it. Interesting method of fuzing, eh? Right before you hang and drop the round, you pulled the ring, inserted the round, and let it go - the lever flipped free as it cleared the tube, and off it went. The Stokes mortar is essentially the first modern mortar. I could write a learned treatise here, but heck,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_whatziss_re_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_whatziss_re_1.html Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:21:20 -0600 Wonder if Stokes had anything to do with the stokes stretcher? Did a quick google and wiki search and found very little. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_whatziss_re_1.html#comment-63364 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/the_whatziss_re_1.html#comment-63364 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:53:54 -0600