Word: bazookas
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...even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good," but complained of the coffee. "Can't drink it," said one Londoner. "When is tea coming up?" The British will use their own weapons and ammunition except for the U.S. 3.5-inch bazooka. At week's end the Ladies from Hell were at the fighting front...
...breadth of annihilation by heavy enemy fire when Red artillery shells killed or wounded the crews of its two lead tanks and the rest of the column piled up behind them. But Private Ray Roberts, a 19-year-old ex-bulldozer operator who had started the reconnaissance as a bazooka man, took over the controls of the lead tank (although he had never driven a tank before), led the column through heavy enemy fire to U.S. lines...
Ever since they first went into action in Korea, U.S. troops had prayed for weapons powerful enough to pierce the heavily armored, Russian-made tanks of the North Korean Communists. The first successful new weapon against the Red tanks was the 3.5 inch bazooka (TIME, July 31), which quickly proved its worth. Last week, the Army took the wraps off a new artillery shell guaranteed by ordnance experts to "kill any tank in the world as far as a gunner...
...shell is a 90-mm. projectile which gets its deadliness from the same "shaped charge" that is built into the bazooka rockets. But the shell, designed for the 90-mm. guns of the U.S. 45-ton General Pershing tanks, has much greater velocity than the bazooka rockets, and an effective combat range of 1,000 yards, ten times that of the bazooka...
This is the most effective U.S. antitank weapon yet used in Korea. The Big Bazooka (3.5 in.) shoots an 8½-lb. rocket whose shaped charge can penetrate about eleven inches of armor; it is used mostly for close-in fighting...