Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking for talent among the students here to contribute to the show. If you, or your wife or sweetheart, etc. can sing, or play anything from the violin to the bazooka, or if you are an amateur magician, please see Major Fay or Ensign Bailey. Here's a chance for somebody to work up a good barbershop quartet. If you're interested, even if you're looking for the other three members, let us know...
...dropping more paratroops. The sky seemed to blossom and fill with 'chutes, white for the men and bright colors for specific types of packed equipment. Several other wrecked gliders were lying on the field. Men were scurrying by, organizing their positions and setting up mortars, machine guns and bazooka positions. Enemy tanks and cavalry appeared, blasting away with blank ammunition in a confusion of swirling dust and bright sunshine...
...classes of 200 (25% is average mortality among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...
...will be replaced as the capacity to make it is freed from more pressing work; 2) worn-out tools will boom the replacement business; 3) new weapons, new military strategy will call for new tools (e.g., a tank-making tool is no good if you want to make a "bazooka...
...Army's newest sensation, the one-man rocket gun-"bazooka"-that can stop a tank (TIME, April 5) may cause a further revision of artillery production...