Word: bazooka
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...Right, Benny." Someone rocketed a bazooka shell into the last of the red houses and flames belched upward. One of the tanks poked its nose around the corner and fired shells directly into the flames. A series of crunching explosions sent the tank backward, as the enemy gun beaded on our area again...
British and Canadian troops in Italy have been using an odd-looking, pipelike weapon vaguely reminiscent of the U.S. bazooka, and performing much the same function as a shattering short-range buster of tanks, armored cars or pillboxes...
...major secret weapons revealed to civilians in this war have been the magnetic mine, rocket guns (such as the U.S. bazooka and the Russian katusha) and radar. The magnetic mine, sprung by the Germans on Nov. 18, 1939, was neutralized within a month (by equipping ships with degaussing girdles). Rocket guns are now in use both by Axis and Allied armies. Radar is credited with a very large share of British victory in the Battle of Britain. But Germany's radio locator has not enabled the Nazis to avoid defeat in the aerial Battle of Germany...
...reasonable guess may be that Germany has developed a rocket launcher-perhaps something like an enlarged version of the U.S. Army's tank-busting bazooka-and hopes to use it, not for any futuristic terror bombing of London, but for a rapid-fire barrage of explosive projectiles against Allied invasion craft in the Channel...
...muscle came from training camps, turning out millions of men & women soldiers. It also came from the new or transplanted war factories. Russian engineers performed miracles in expanding production, modernizing old weapons, creating new ones. Russia's Katusha antedated the U.S. bazooka, the German rocket gun. New, high-velocity, armor-piercing shells enabled the Red Army to retain anti-tank guns once thought too light to tackle the German Tiger...