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The American soldier in this new service photo is having a good hard look at the business end of a captured German Minenwerfer (“mine launcher”, which was a short-range mortar), .a three-inch field gun used to devastating effects throughout the war. We are told via the supplied typed caption that the display was installed on Coney Island (Brooklyn) as part of a Red Cross fund-raising exhibit. 