Word: bazookas
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...Leipzig Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...
...than a passing grade. It had the best rifle in the world-the Garand (which the riflewise Marine Corps had originally rejected after exhaustive tests, thus proving that there is more than one judgment to be made about any weapon). It had been first on the field with the bazooka...
...sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...troops running, crouching, chasing each other in on the Japanese defense works. A bazooka fires, flashing at both ends. Machine guns yammer. We can see grenades exploding and the infantry still running, naked and terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen...
Surprise for Americans. U.S. tanks armed with 75-mm. guns are too light to stop German armor, said Baldwin, "unless they get in close-range lucky side shots. Even the bazooka no longer holds its former terror for some of the German monsters." Heavier 76-mm. and 105-mm. guns are effective "but only at relatively close range." The German 88-mm. "is as good as or better" than the U.S. 90-mm. high-velocity piece (now mounted in the U.S. M36 tank destroyer...