Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops were on the verge of rioting when a Jap Zero came down to strafe them. Windadge made a quick draw with his bazooka, fired, made a direct hit on the Zero and stultified it. The rioting troops subsided forthwith, for that was shooting even in the Schoutens...
...were high [over Morocco's Atlas Mountains], . . . Down there lived sheep men-obscure mountain men who had never heard of a nebelwerfer or a bazooka. Men at home at the end of the day in the poor, narrow, beautiful security of their own walls...
...when the situation was critical in another sector." So violent was the diversion that it "relieved pressure on the threatened area and made the Germans withdraw their main defense positions a mile or more on a long front"-but the whole job was done by only 100 face-blackened, bazooka-armed U.S.-Canadians...
...comes nearer to being a man of all weapons. Except for the airplane, the tank and the artillery, the infantry uses most of the weapons in the arsenal of a modern army: not only the rifle and bayonet but the Tommy gun, machine gun, mortar, hand and rifle grenades, bazooka, flame thrower, good-sized anti-tank artillery...
Kelly volunteered once more, this time to cover the retreat. As the others left, they saw him at a window, methodically loading and firing a bazooka to slow up the foe. When he made his own getaway he slid down a hill, found an abandoned 37-mm. antitank gun, served and fired that at the enemy positions until he had used up the shells on hand. Then he withdrew in good order, eventually rejoined his own outfit. Said Kelly...