But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That's what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia.

Over 200 mortar shells were found in total under the school's playground. Town of Tain L’Hermitage "We find them every week," Yannick Le Sausse, second in command of the departmental gendarmerie ...

A landscaping crew about to grind a tree stump discovered 30 World War II mortar shells buried on property once owned by the Navy. A worker hit and broke one of the shells Friday, but it did not ...

FOX LAKE — The goal of prescription drug take back day is to remove hazardous material from the community, but police in Fox Lake were a little startled when a ...

It was essentially a direct copy of the French Brandt mle 27/31 mortar. Soviet arms designer B.I. Szayrin revised the mortar by adding recoil springs to reduce the firing loads on the bipod, and ...

April 25, 2023 at 7:43pm BST. AN unexploded Second World War bomb has been destroyed in a controlled explosion in Co Down, two weeks after another WW2 device was found in the county.

But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That’s what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia.