Mortar Shells facts
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The mortar shell scars on the roads and pavements of Sarajevo were filled in with red resin, resulting in a bright red floral pattern that became known as 'Sarajevo Roses'.
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During the Korean War, the U.S Military ran out of mortar rounds and as a result accidentally ordered thousands of crates of 'Tootsie Rolls' candy. This is because the U.S Army used 'Tootsie Roll' as a slang code for mortar shells.
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what are mortar shells?
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One of the weapons America would have used in the planned invasion of Japan was Little David, a 36" (914mm) mortar used to test aerial bombs. Converted into a mobile siege gun, it fired 3650 lb (1.6k kg) shells at a range of 6 miles, and would have been the largest calibre gun ever fielded.
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22 yr old Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death, when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers
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2 paratroop medics saved the lives of about 80 people, including Germans, inside of a small church while carrying no weapons. They were spared by Germans who could've shot them as they carted the wounded back to the church, and someone threw a mortar shell into the church.
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In 1966, a South Vietnamese soldier was hit directly by a 60mm mortar round that penetrated his skin and became lodged under his armpit. His operating table was surrounded by sandbags as they removed the shell from his body.
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Sarajevo Roses" are the concrete scars from mortar shells during the Bosnian War filled with resin to memorialize those killed by the explosions.
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Much of the destruction of the Parthenon in Athens was caused by a chance Venetian mortar shell in 1687, which struck the gunpowder being stored there by the Turks.
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The concrete scar pattern of mortar shells in Sarajevo are filled in with red resin as memorials and called "Sarajevo Roses"
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During the Polish -Ottoman War. The Ottomans stockpiled gunpowder in The Parthenon in Anthens believing no one would dare shell the historic site. A jerk of General named Francesco Morosini proved them wrong ordering a mortar attack - resulting in lot of the damage we see today.
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In the Korean War At some point a call was put out for "Tootsie Rolls," which was the code name for mortar shells. The only way supplies could be delivered was through an airdrop; upon opening the boxes the soldiers found that actual Tootsie Rolls were dropped. Yes, candy.
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About "Sarajevo Roses"; craters created by shells and mortars where people were killed during the siege of Sarajevo, were filled in with a red resin giving them a rose-like appearance.