SS-Heavy Mortar Platoon, Two mortar sections with command, Heavy Mortar Platoon
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includes four 12cm sGW43 mortars with crew, four Transport axles, one Command SMG team, one Observer Rifle team, two Small bases & four Large bases. During Operation Barbarossa in 1941 the Germans encountered the large Soviet 120-PM-38 12cm mortars. The qualities of this weapon were immediately recognised and any captured weapons immediately put into service under the designation 12cm Granatwerfer 378(r) (Literally, grenade thrower). The Germans were so impressed by this weapon that they immediately set about making their own version.