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| ''[[The Fighting 69th]]'' || [[Alan Hale Sr.]] || Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn || || 1940
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Revision as of 12:48, 27 March 2016

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Stokes Trench Mortar - 3 inch

The Stokes Trench Mortar was developed by an Englishman, Sir Wilfred Scott-Stokes who was the managing director of Ransome & Rapier of Ipswich, England a mechanical engineering firm. Although Stokes did not have a military background, he quickly grasped the need for a "portable gun" soon after war started in Europe. Stokes correctly reasoned that such a weapon would be valuable for reducing the deadly machine gun nests that were beginning to wreak much havoc on the Western Front. Stokes had a working prototype of his trench mortar ready for testing in December of 1914, barely four months after the war started.

The Stokes Trench Mortar and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

  • Stokes Trench Mortar
  • Caliber: 3 inch
  • Barrel Length: 51 inches
  • Weight:
  • Tube: 43 pounds
  • Base Plate: 28 pounds
  • Bipod: 37 pounds
  • Total: 108 pounds
  • Effective Range: 750 yards
  • Maximum Range: 800 yards


Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
The Fighting 69th James Cagney Private Jerry Plunkett 1940
The Fighting 69th Alan Hale Sr. Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn 1940

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Anzacs Australian soldiers 1985
Journey's End British soldiers 1988

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Release Date
Battlefield: 1918 "Stokes Mortar" 2004
Verdun unusable 2015