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Show ARMY GETS 81 MM. MORTAR - V. ' -i A : ' V s ; " h'" HAMMOND,' IND. Brig. Gen. A. G. Gillespie, commanding general of the Watervleit, N. Y., arsenal; C. A. Liddle, president of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., and Col. Donald Armstrong, Arm-strong, executive officer of the Chicago ordnance department, left to right around the gun, inspect one of the first 81 mm. trench mortars mor-tars completed in the United States for the national defense program. pro-gram. The 81 mm. mortar manufactured by the plant of the Pullman-Standard Pullman-Standard company, was presented to Col. Armstrong for the army in a ceremony at the Hammond shops. |