[Mobhack]

We had 2in mortars in the 70s. A simple tube with a white line painted down the side, and a trigger mechanism. Only meant to throw smoke in the textbook platoon attack, or illumination at night. In WW2, HE was apparently available to those units who made a special request for it, it was definitely not general issue.

"Sights" were the aforementioned white line. Aiming was by eye using Kentucky windage.

However, it did manage to kill a Tiger 2 in Normandy - it either fell down the open turret hatch, or more likely set off the munition carrier that was "bombing up" the beast at the time. Some units loved the thing and asked for (and used) HE, apparently.

But they were not at all popular in our battalion. So the things lived in the armoury and only came out for the annual recruit induction course where a few rounds were shot off in front of a batch of them. That concluded all the training anyone in our unit ever had on the weapon.

Unlike the Charlie G, which actually was occasionally taken out on exercise and humped around the boonies even though there was no such thing as a blank round for them, the 2in never was. It was considered by us to be a complete waste of time, certainly not worth using up 2 valuable bodies in the platoon HQ. Those riflemen could then do something more useful instead.