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To fire the mortar, a crewman squeezed the main firing lever, which compressed a spring via a cable. Pulling a small trigger at the top of the firing lever released the spring and launched the shell.

THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE’s rapid 1940 departure from Dunkirk left the English desperately short of military

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