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...Burns, papa of the peacetime bazooka, traveled to Texas' Camp Hood, for the first time laid eyes on his trademark's military namesake (TIME, April 5), found it too large for his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Royalty | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

People who never bought an original picture in their lives now throng a Manhattan gallery called the Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cut-Rate Art | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Tanks repeatedly overran the hill. Every man fought for himself. The unit on the hill had only one anti-tank gun. Officers sometimes fired the gun. They manhandled it on a wall, firing first at tanks to the right, then at tanks to the left. A captain seized a bazooka (the army's famed anti-tank rocket weapon), knocked out a tank 25 yards away. A lieutenant colonel of paratroopers, who had stumbled on the battalion and stayed with it, knocked out another tank with a bazooka, then was killed. Officers and men battled the waves of tanks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Of Sicily: March From The Beaches | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electronics School | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Envelopment from the Sky | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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