Word: bazooka
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...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...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
Technical details on the rocket artillery were necessarily vague, but it would appear to be an adaptation of the well-publicized Army bazooka, an open tube which uses an electric spark to launch a short-range rocket projectile...