The bootmaker's shop on Nissan was a busy place, as the pile of boots indicates. Below: The mortar platoon p...

Raid by 30 NZ Infantry Battallion on Nissan Island — A mortar crew bombing Japanese barges concealed on the ...

Men of the battalion grouped on the deck of the American destroyer which took them to Nissan Island. Below: ...

Member of the Maori Battalion using a 2 inch mortar during manoeuvres, Western Desert, Egypt

tJ.S. Signal Corps Photo. A Japanese mortar shell has just struck a short distance down the road on the Phil...

Open desert in the Sirte area, Libya, during World War 2, showing an enemy mortar exploding in front of adva...