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Last week, Private Kenny Shadrick and his buddies were a bazooka squad in a graveyard near the town of Sojong, close to the advancing North Korean Reds. Kenny aimed a bazooka rocket at an enemy tank, counted three while the rocket lobbed toward the target, then stuck his head & shoulders above the gun pit to watch. The tank's machine gun chattered and Kenny Shadrick tumbled backward, a bullet through his right arm, another through his chest...
...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
With improvements in recoilless weapons, the bazooka, the shaped charge and "the more recent developments with regard to guided missiles and rockets, target-seeking equipment and the possibilities of tactical use of atomic weapons," said Pace, "it may well be that tank warfare as we have known it will soon be obsolete...
...Bring Players? For more advanced batting practice, Dodgertown had three mechanical pitching machines, supposed to throw the ball at just the desired speed and-over & over again-at just the right spot. The Dodgers called one "The Bazooka," another "Iron Mike," the third "Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced still another gadget-"Big Inch," a gravity-feed pipeline into which outfielders tossed the ball after shagging long flies. "Big Inch" conducted the balls to a box near the batting cage, prevented a hail of return throws and saved the outfielder's arm for the throwing practice that would come...
...mobile truck units still handle more than half of all the well-perforating business in the U.S., and provide many another service on the side. The latest, which Lane-Wells performs under license from the patent-owning Welex Jet Services, is to free oil by means of a bazooka-like gun that fires jets of high-speed, fast-burning gases...