Word: bazooka
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...tanks broke into Taejon last week, Dean was up at the front, worked with his bazooka squads. Said a corporal: "The general took a couple of men downtown and went after two tanks. I saw him passing ammunition to the men and directing fire. He was doing a damn good job, too." As more & more Reds poured into the city, Dean told the men around him: "I want all of you boys to get out." Dean himself stayed. One correspondent reported seeing him last in the streets of Taejon, saying with a grin: "I just got me a Red tank...
...less effective weapons to stop the T-34s. Most of these weapons are not new. None of them is a complete tank defense weapon in itself; their effectiveness depends on coordinated use. The most spectacular single weapon yet used by the U.S. against the Red tanks is the Big Bazooka, which made its debut last week, knocked out seven tanks in seven tries. Another good antitank weapon is the mine, which the Germans used with deadly results in World War II. But the mine is a defensive weapon, and U.S. troops have so far made little...
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...first Distinguished Service Cross of the Korean war was awarded posthumously last week to Colonel Robert R. Martin, 48-year-old infantry officer from Toledo, Ohio, who stood his ground before a Communist tank, fired his last bazooka rocket when it was only 15 yards away. The medal will be presented to his son, Robert Jr., 19, a third classman at West Point...
...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...