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Originally Posted by lbreevesii
listen to flanker. a mortar is EXTREMELY hard to aim. there was a deal i think at normandy, where the krauts had these black and white striped posts in the water, every boat that went near one got pounded. they were mortar range markers. i think that i would stick to doing a compressed air powered one if u are going to do it. spud gun types tend to be somewaht cumbersome to load and prep etc.
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I think you are talking about the mine poles (I forget what they called them) that were just large telephone poles, not unlike Rommel's Asparagus, with mines on the top. The point of that was so that during high tide, the poles could hold mines underwater so they couldnt be detected, but close enough to the surface that anything going over with a certain keel depth would hit the mine and blow up. Most LCTs that were sunk were either from the mines or mortar fire, or from artillary positions.