The Bazooka - In The Movies
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2022
- A brief overview of the Bazooka as seen in war movies and video games.
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Movies /Video Games featured:
Unknown Soldier 2017
Hacksaw Ridge 2016
The Adventures of Tintin 2011
71: Into the Fire 2010
The Pacific 2010
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008
The Great Raid 2005
Tae Guk Gi 2004
We Were Soldiers 2002
Windtalkers 2002
Band of Brothers 2001
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Wheels of Fire 1985
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
Monty Python Flying Circus 1969
The Brain 1969
Shock Troops 1967
Is Paris Burning? 1966
To Hell and Back 1955
The Battles of the Rails 1946
Rocket Launcher Training Video - 1943
Hell Let Loose (Video Game)
#ww1 #warhistory
Fun fact, the SAS soldier firing the m72 at the iraqi tank also played harry welsh in band of brothers.
Lol yes! Good eye sir. Exactly why I chose this clip.
Damn I never realized that, thank you! His face looks visibly different and as such I could only confirm that through his voice which sounds exactly the same :)
Yes, and he as Harry Welsh was using a Bazooka in BoB at the Battle of Bloody Gulch
Saw this before the video started, gonna be looking for my boy now lol
Wow, thanks for pointing that out
One creative way to use The Bazooka is to fire it at ground at users feet while making a crouch jump, allowing user to perform a rocket jump.
Only way to travel in style.
It’s what they used before they invented Stairs
Good old Abe Lincoln invented it!
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you can do it, but only once.
Such as was famously used by the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day, where groups of soldiers performed several successive rocket jumps along the beach wall to reach the German bunkers.
I would like to add that the bazooka was mounted on Jeeps and used as artillery support during the invasion of Italy.
Absolutely thanks for adding this
They also used recoilless rifles as well which effectively did the same job.
Are you sure that you're not talking about the Recoiless rifle??
@@stoneddragon5400 Yes I am referring to the bazooka which was actually mounted onto the beds of jeeps being used as rocket artillery during the invasion of Italy
edit: Seen here: ruclips.net/video/tBj45MAbVI8/видео.html
@@blackegret666 cool
An additional comment. The bazooka had no launch safety for all the early versions. Once you pulled the safety pin it would detonate if you dropped it, or even just by firing it. It was not safe. Apparently much later versions would not detonate till they were fired + a delay time.
That's right! Thanks as always for adding some good info here Jeremy.
Let's not forget RPG's once you take the safety cap off of them if you drop it they still blow up.
@@charliecostella RPG-7 rockets actually have a safety fuse in that it requires the rocket to spin a certain number of times before arming. Issue is that a lot of the rockets in use are not exactly soviet stock.
Thus making the piat better
That would be terrifying to use, even worse if you were under fire. Glad it was remedied
I was a Bazooka shooter in the French army a few decades ago ...Shooting it , i remember vividly , was basically like running face first into a wall .. You'd always touch your nose afterward to check if it was bleeding ..
In one book about the fighting in Hue, Vietnam in 1968 the author mentioned that most of the Marine 3.5in bazookas had been stored as there were few targets worthy of carrying the weapon and ammo around on patrols. With the city fighting in Hue, the Marines hustled to get the bazookas issued again and used them to good effect in attacking buildings.
The super bazooka had a ridiculous amount of backblast, like 120 yards were meant to be cleared behind you before firing. You can imagine how this was an issue in the thick brush of the jungles where getting out of dodge was pretty damn hard.
Fun Fact:
The Chinese received thousands of bazookas during the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. The Chinese copy of the Super Bazooka known as the Type 51 can use both American and Chinese ammunition but the American Bazooka can't use Chinese ammo.
Excellent additional info thank you 🙏
Chinese are lengends at this.
Indeed. I saw the Red Chinese reverse-engineered American M20 Super Bazooka in the 1979 Salamander Publishing book, "The Chinese War Machine". Evidently it did not stay in Red Chinese arsenals for long. The RPG was a much better anti-tank weapon, lighter to carry, and required only one operator.
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the chinese do love copying things
The guy with the bazookas on his prop plane is a absolute legend.
The American WW2 bazooka was a miracle of armament engineering simplicity. It upheld Occam's Razor theorem which in essence states that the best solution to the most complex of problems and dilemmas is often the most simple or straightforward. That was the M1 and M9 bazooka, a simple, inexpensive steel tube.
The Germans were astonished when they captured American bazookas in North Africa and in the Soviet Union. The simplicity of the design, manufacture, and operation had them shaking their heads in amazement. Why didn't German ingenuity think of that first? But then everyone knew that the Americans were capable of ingenious inventions. The Germans had committed the reverse of Occam's Razor by designing a small, wheeled artillery piece to fire the German, 8.8 cm anti-tank rocket. It was a classic case as engineers like to joke, of 'overengineering' something. Instead of an artillery piece that required four men to move and operate, plus a wheeled vehicle prime mover, here was Simplicity the Goddess herself. A simple steel tube with necessary attachments could be handled by only two men, a gunner and a loader with no vehicle necessary. The Germans already had the anti-tank rocket. They just needed to reverse-engineer the American bazooka and make it bigger in diameter.
The American WW2 bazooka was formidable against thin-skinned vehicles such as trucks and armored cars plus fortifications but against the tanks of WW2, the bazooka was already staring at obsolescence. It was deadly enough against thin-armored tanks like the Japanese ones and the early German Mark I and II. But after that the frontal armor of succeeding tanks was too thick. Side and rear armor proved vulnerable but dangerous to approach.
Make a long story short. The U.S. Army Ordnance proved slow to respond and kept insisting on improving the current M9 and M9A1. It wasn't till very late in the war, in 1945 that U.S. Ordnance began work on the M20 Super Bazooka. War's end held up final development and mass production, which would prove a serious mistake. The U.S. Army went into South Korea in June 1950 with M9 bazookas that proved ineffective against T-34/85 Soviet-built tanks of the North Korean People's Army. War is the best corrector of procrastination and mistakes. The U.S. Army airlifted M20 bazookas to Korea and mass production ramped up.
Interestingly, the British and Soviets both received quantities of M1 bazookas in 1942. Both tried them out and as quickly put the bazookas into storage for similar reasons, the bazooka backblast was large and dangerous, giving away the location of the bazooka team. The British held on to their effective PIAT to war's end and then adopted the American M20 Super Bazooka until such time as British armaments could invent their own modern anti-tank weapons which meant rockets and missiles. The Soviets went on to create the excellent RPG, still in use today.
wonder how many died trying to wire in the firing mechanism to the Missile ? 1943 a lot of boys wouldnt even have driven a car yet
IDK where you're getting that information about the bazooka only being good against thin tanks and trucks my friend. Firstly, even the m1 bazooka, introduced in1942, had sufficient penetration to knock out the overwhelming majority of german tanks of that time. The m1 rocket (providing it successfully fired) could penetrate usually around 2.5inches to 3 inches of steel, or 63-75mm of armor. of the 550-600 tanks faced by American Forces in Africa in 1942, only about 30 were tigers, and only around 50-60 were panzer IVs, meaning that only around 15-16% of the german armor force had sufficient frontal armor thickness to withstand a M1 Bazooka rocket. Italy was much worse.
and that's not even considering the m9, which had penetrative performance from 3.5-4 inches, meaning that only the rare Panthers and Tigers could withstand a frontal strike with a bazooka. That's not to say the weapon was all commanding, as you had to get pretty damn close to actually use it, making it a better defensive weapon than an offensive one. and the M1 had major teething issues, particularly the m6 rocket.
The Russians didn't like the bazooka because it was short range, which wasnt suited to the battlefields of the east, and the fact that we only gave them like 5000 rockets and 3000 tubes, and the rockets were the horribly unreliable m6 rocket. Though based on their lack of reappearance postwar, the Russians probably used them anyway, likely giving them to russian civilians to use.
as for the british, their gripe with the weapon was it had a lot less range than their piats. They did, however, find a use for the m9 bazookas, particularly in the bocages of France.
I believe the misconception about the bazooka stems from the same reason people think so ill of the Sherman tank, besides it being easily one of, if not the best, tanks of the war. They hear about the few times it DOESN'T work, as its being used against a tank it was never designed to engage, and everyone remembers that fearful engagement; but they don't remember all the other tanks they knocked out before they ran into their first Panther, with those tanks being the overwhelming majority of tanks in the theater. (which is why the sherman crews themselves didn't want the 76.2 until they started fighting panthers in france).
That's not Occam's Razor. First off it's a philosophical principle and a tool of logic, not a theorem. Rather, it is a philosophical principle that posits that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction then one should select the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions. It does not propose that one should accept a solution based on complexity or simplicity, merely that one should avoid making unnecessary assumptions when choosing which hypothesis to choose to develop. The desirability of simplicity in engineering is often misunderstood to be Occam's Razor but that's not what it actually is. Although engineering developed while keeping assumptions to a minimum does often result in elegantly simple products that doesn't mean that Occam's Razor is all about simplicity.
@@RunningWithRoses the m1 could penetrate 63-75 millimeters in IDEAL circumstances. the armor on mid to late panzer 4 Gs had 80mm on the front. the only place where the m1's warhead could punch through was the mantlet which was only 40mm, maybe sides if it was not covered in sideskirts. same thing with mid to late stug 4s, except there is no mantlet and is frontally impervious to the m1 warhead.
the m1 could not even damage upgraded panzer 3s due to the additional spaced armor on the front of the tank.
did you forget that the americans joined the war on the western theater in mid 1944? and im not even considering panthers, which were mass produced in panzer 4 quantities and tigers. OP is very much correct in stating that the m1 is only good for lighter vehicles like trucks and armored cars and tanks from the sides.
YOU ARE PERPETUATING A MYTH!
yet you write paragraphs of how you are so smart in correcting other myths? you should be ashamed of yourself.
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At 3:01: "Titles are cancelled we're running Currahee!"---- Well played sir, well played!
Loved this!
What was the reason?
@@Paladin1873 You have to know Band of Brothers refrrence to get it.
@@crasyhorse44 So please explain why he did not use the name of the miniseries. I've never seen the series, but I did read the book.
@@Paladin1873 It would be difficult to understand without seeing David Schwimmer's excellent performance as Captain Sobel. As soon as you see episode 1 you'll get it.
The fact that in Battlefield V, If you go behind the M1 Bazooka's Back blast it will kill you and if you are the one who is doing it, you can get a Teamkill by accident, TBH they did a great Job depicting the M1 Bazooka in Battlefield V
Gladly you mentioned "Bazooka Charlie" aka Charles Carpenter. The men who single handily support American tank and troops during the battle of Arracourt, while American air support were bog down by heavy cloud, fog and rain
This was only possible for the Bazooka's unique electrical firing system, the percussion firing of other anti-tank weapons just made it much harder for them to be clustered and fired remotely like could be done with Bazookas. The rockets could also be rigged as command-detonated anti-tank mines fired out of their transport tube.
Nice one JJ. My father in law was loader in a bazooka team in the Black Watch circa 1955. He said it was essentially a death sentence. His instructor preferred the PIAT as it didn’t advertise your position quite so emphatically.
Thanks for the great and unique content! You can really see the effort and care put into each video. So good on you Johnny!
Well thanks for the kind feedback!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I’m just stating fact :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq delivered with much welcomed humour, it has been documented that Roman Legionaries were sharing ribald stories just before shields clashed...The HBO series Rome portrayed this very well...
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You do a really great job. Totally got lost in your concise and intelligent narration.
In the movies, the anti-tank round always explodes like it was High Explosive. You would think that it would just punch a hole in a tank, and within a few seconds a sheet of flame would erupt out of the open top hatch, as the ammo inside the tank went up (if it was struck by the original fragments)..Without an internal explosion, some crew members could probably survive, and flee.
I dunno.....I'm not up on bazooka rounds, but I have a lot of experience with the M61 (20mm) and GAU-7 (30mm) gun systems. When they were testing a proposed 25mm round, a SINGLE round was fired at a Soviet Cold-War era APC from a static barrel. The round penetrated the armor and the white-hot fragments created by the impact burned holes through each of the half-dozen or so plywood shapes simulating the crew and complement of the vehicle. I would assume the same dynamic would occur in a tank hit.
Most hollywood AT hit always do petrol explosion for dramatic effect. In real life, if I remember correctly, tanks only go up in flames if it hit the ammo rack, engine, or fuel tanks. Otherwise, there would only be a shockwave, small fire and fragments
An anti-tank round is still a lot of high explosives, you can't really see how the copper is shot at hypersonic velocity out the front. You'd just see a flash and the rapidly expanding cloud of dust and smoke.
It doesn't just punch a hole, there is still an explosion.
The hole it punches is quite small and hard to see amongst the scorch marks. As the TNT high explosive is oxygen deficient so the end result is a lot of carbon which initially is glowing and produces an orange/red fireball before quickly cooling and depositing on every surface as a fine soot.
@@farrela3620 Pretty much. Don't forget that, generally speaking, crews bailed out after a penetrative hit, especially if one of them died.
@@markeaton6435 What "Soviet Cold War-era APC" was this?
We were trained on the 3.5” Super Bazooka in the Canadian Army circa 1970s. Although I never got to fire it, we did however use a lot of M72s and it’s big brother the Carl Gustav. It always felt like getting punched in the face when you fired it as the concussion of the rocket motor hit you. Mind you, it paled into comparison to what it was like on the receiving end. I really wouldn’t want to find out.
The US Air Force used the M67 90mm recoilless rifles for airbase defense from the late 1960s to at least the late 1980s. Interestingly enough, I once met the man I was told was most responsible for the Air Force adopting this weapon. The story I was told is that he had been a Security Police commander in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive who had been tasked with dislodging VC sappers from a bunker they had overtaken. His base defense troops had no weapons capable of penetrating the bunker, so he rushed to the nearest Army unit and borrowed an M67, with which he successfully dislodged the enemy, an action which earned him both a Purple Heart and Silver Star.
As for bazookas mounted on light observation aircraft, in the 1953 Korean War movie "Mission Over Korea" there is a scene where a Stinson L-5 is used in just such a manner to attack North Korean tanks.
Armor penetration is pretty much scaled by the diameter of the warhead. The bazooka was a really small diameter! The Panzerschrek was larger in diameter, and the Panzerfaust had a much larger diameter warhead. The RPG-7 also uses enlarged warheads for better penetration.
I read a book by and got to talk to a bazookaman who served in the Glider Riders and he much preferred the M9 to the M1 bazooka. He never got to take out a tank but he did knock out an MG42 position inside a barn with it in Holland. He didn't look at what had happened but his friends told him the rocket had passed through the gunner and detonated on the wall behind them, presumably killing the loader as the whole team was killed.
Always love your taste in film and television for your weapon examples. As a fellow film nerd, I really appreciate it buddy
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@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq totally agree thinking of renaming Clabby Towers to Nerdington Hall...
@@eamonnclabby7067 Us nerds have to stick together
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq so true...despite our respective careers...Mrs C and I really wanted to become Librarians..all those books..BA...Before Amazon...
@@eamonnclabby7067life'll do that to you. Hope you have some kind of literary job today
I should say I didn’t know bazookas are electrically-fired. I thought they have some sort of primer at the end of the rocket ignite by a hammer. Like modern RPGs.
Or fire the same way as a German panzerfaust where a primer/percussion cap is manually place on the outside of the tube.
I only fired a "Bazooka" once, in 1967, at Army National Guard "Summer Camp"!
My partner & I, each fired one projectile, at an old tank & he made an unbelievable
shot! The rocket went directly down the mouth of the tank's cannon & imploded
inside! If this happened during actual combat, he probably would have got a medal!
"Titles are cancelled we're running Currahee!" - Pure Genius!
Awesome video for an awesome weapon! Good work Johnny!
Oh yes a 5am johhny johnson vid, brilliant as always😩
Welcome home brother
Wait a minute. The title talks about movies but when I watch this I learn things. Learn things! You're tricking me into knowing more than I did before about interesting things. You magnificent bastard!
Gotcha good!
Yes I’ve been waiting for this video since forever
What a great present to receive just as I got home from work
I got you
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank you The Easter Johnny
I remeber in a Chuck Norris movie. That Chuck fired several rounds from the same M72 tube. It was kind of funny
Excellent video as always, greatly showcasing the revolutionary design of the Bazooka :) I highly enjoyed the references made in clips from Band of Brothers. Keep it up!
Well done ,thanks for throwing a few The Great Raid clips in there, keep up the great work buddy.
Cool video! I was thinking if you can make a video about the German 37mm cannon? Both on planes and AA batteries. Thanks!
3:43 How did he fail to notice which side the sight was on?! He's right-handed, is holding that thing right-handed, and it's built in right-handed configuration anyway. I know, I know. It's done for comedic effect. See also that one scene in Commando.
Haha I like how you included that python sketch one of my faves not least cos Terry Jones walks in with that massive bazooka out of nowhere.
John Mc Grath was the grandfather of a class mate of mine. We never heard stories from him as kids. But found out later, after Band of Brothers was out. The man passed shortly there after.
Have you thought of doing The Colt Peace Maker
Love your vids...found your channel last week and binge watched em all..keep up the great work!!
Thanks so much 🙏
I like how you had the actor Rick Warden shooting a bazooka as Harry Welsh in Band of Brothers and shooting a LAW as Tony Benotti in Bravo Two Zero.
Glad you noticed that 🥸
Always great! Thanks for the weapons rundowns.
When I was 12 years old in South Africa in 1950 we made a Bazooka from bamboo piping and Guy Fawkes rockets.......such fun.
Two problems with the US bazooka; first the small diameter warhead. That came from the original design of the rifle grenade design that was developed into the rocket projectile. After seeing the German's reverse engineering of the Panzerschreck the US Army developed the 3.5in design. The "Super Bazooka" was ready shortly after WW2 ended and they were stored, then hauled out and put back into production for the Korean War. The second problem with the US bazooka was mediocre training. Atkinson's "An Army At Dawn" mentions that the bazookas were so new they were rushed to the forces gathering for Operation Torch headed for North Africa. The first time most troops ever saw one was when the crates were opened onboard the transports heading to the invasion! Even in later actions the bazooka crews were often just picked from riflemen with little added training on the weapons or the best tactics for using one. Today's trivia: US rocket weapons in WW2 were identified by the diameter of the warhead in inches, versus tube artillery moving to metric designations.
6:37 I’m glad you mention bazooka Charlie man! Not many people know about him
The OG death from above
Here in Brazil, "Bazuca" is the slang word for any portable rocket launcher, even for like the RPG-7 if the person seeing it doesn't know much about weapons.
Brought the wrong bazooka to band, had a blast though
i see wut u did there
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Yer just a silly silly person 😜
This is great, keeping me up after midnight.
Take care, and all the best.
Haha thanks brother. Have a good night.
Another great video 👍🏾👏🏾
That tank rifle hitting the t34, and nudging it was comedy gold.
Everyone always talks about "superior German technology" of WWII, but the Allies did invent some very useful things, like the rocket launcher (aka the Bazooka)
Mostly because "Superior German technology" is mostly a Nazi Myth. The allies where mostly on par, or ahead technologically, and the only useful superweapon of WW2 was developed by the allies.
Always on with the great content. Keep it up, brother.
Thanks for the kind words 🙏
Love the titles at the top often giving up or becoming memes, usually referring certain Hanks produced mini-series or movies!
Well done video - Thanks!
My dad was trained for the bazooka and fought in Italy in WW11. RIP Pop
I was probably one of the last Marines to be instructed in the use of the 3.5 inch rocket launcher, or the bazooka! I was in boot camp in 1966, and was instructed in the use of the bazooka AND the flame thrower! Of course, I never used them in combat in Viet Nam. I remember shooting at 55 gallon drums and ruined tanks.
I'd like to see the Sterling SMG done next, just for its long association with the Star Wars films.
It's on my list but might be a few weeks yet
I love how you said the bazooka in the introduction
It's a fun name for a weapon that's forsure
Very good, and informative!
I don't have anything to add but I would like to say thank you that was a very informative video
"Titles are cancelled we are running Currahee!" Got me lol
Hello, ! 🌟Thanks for watching::You have been shortlisted for the ongoing secret giveaway contact address above on telegram, ❤️💯🏆, Thank you!
You've knocked it out of the park again, Johnny.
Thank ya sir!
3:01 love the title change
Interesting fact the Rosie the Rocketer plane is at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA
Great video, I loved it!
Another great video. I bought some bazooka gum recently 😆
Song at the end is "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" Bert Lown Orch. 1930
Very nice work 👍
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Another great video.
Great video as always! Kinda surprised I didn’t see footage from Battlefield V! Keep up the great work!
from a marine, love these videos
Thank brother!
I would just like to applaud your many band of brothers references throughout the video 🤣
Love the Hell Let Loose footage you used ha
Great game
You showed a very breif flash of the "super bazooka" from The Eagle heas landed with Larry Hagman (J R Ewing in Dallas) in. They use it against a barn and a car I believe in the film, but they signal ready by tapping the gunners helmet to fire the rocket.
"Titles are canceled, we're running Currahee" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
How about the M67 recoilless rifle? We had a bartered one from the First Infantry Division in CuChi RVN. I was a patrol officer with RivDiv 593. "The Iron Butterfly" PBR squadron out of Phi Cuong and Nha Be on the Saigon River. We had HEAT (M371A1) and antipersonnel (M590) flechette rounds.
I learned something today, thanks to you.
Well thanks for stopping by
We also see a Bazooka in Paul Verhoeven's Dutch defense promo film "Het Korps Mariniers" (1965). Made in the style of Terrence Young's James Bond films.
My dad was a barber from the 1950s to the 1990s. Whenever he gave a kid a haircut, he would always give him some bazooka bubble gum. It's still made!
1:26 I was just watching a Macgyver episode and the "Pete" character referred to a LAW as a bazooka. I had to grit my teeth but knowing it's an accepted generic term for a rocket weapon makes me feel better
Good video work👍
In the SciFi movie "Them" there's a great scene of soldiers using a bazooka to attack the giant ants.
Johnny, you do A GREAT JOB with these videos : REALLY WELL CREATED AND EDITED. God bless you - John 3:16
Why thank you kindly 🙏
Excellent video
nice video, but that guy firing the bazooka from his hip is a effing gangster lol
Yah don't mess with that guy
BTW, Time stamps 2:26 and 7:42, these scenes were filmed just west of the Contonment area of Yakima Firing Center, Wa state. Now Yakima Training Center. The area is now occupied by a Marine Corps maintenance facility, a WAARNG Armory and the WAARNG MATES facility MATES = Manuaver Area Training Equipment Site. (formerly Mobilization And Training Equipment Site)..
I'm here early lol, just subbed. Thanks for the great content.
Welcome to the channel!
Was hoping to see that scene on Iwo Jima from The Pacific where that dude smokes that mg nest from distance.
I love seeing the little title Easter eggs for band of brothers.
Hi ho silver!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq oh arr...long John silver..
@@eamonnclabby7067 I'll try to do have a British video for you in a few days.
"Titles are canceled, we're running Currahee!" lmao
04:00 Making Sobel proud 😂
I'm surprised I never heard you refer to it as a stovepipe. Maybe I missed it, I was slightly distracted by my phone for a second. Anyways, I love this type of content and you present it very well.
You earned a new sub.
I did early in the video :) Thanks and welcome to the channel!
A side comment. One of the few places outside of Spain where the M 65 Instalaza was used was in Argentina. It was used in the South Atlantic war, but I don't remember seeing it in any of the few movies about that war. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina
love your channel bro
Thanks man always appreciate hearing it
Another good one Johnny!! Appreciate it my friend. I wonder if this is where Bazooka bubblegum got it’s name?
Johnny,Thank You for the Excellent video. Another shot of a 3.5" Super Bazooka was in the 1970 Movie The Last Grenade starring Stanley Baker. He was kind of a Low Rent Sean Connery but good in several movies. In this movie the Communist Insurgents ambush a British Generals Staff car with one.
Hmm haven't seen it ill have to give it a go. Many thanks 🙏
As I mentioned on the German version I was trained on two occasions to use an M72LAW but I don't believe I ever fired one. I did fire a couple of rounds through a 3.5" Rocket Launcher in the Marines in 1970.
Here - one of the rounds didn't fire.
Me: _"Sir, Misfire Sir,"_
Instructor: "_What?"_
Me: _"Sir, Misfire Sir,"_
Instructor: _"Oh ... [pause] OK. Try it again now."_
3.5" : *_SWOOSH!!!_*
They had at one time in the past actually had a vehicle to shoot at but ... after thousands of rounds had been fired into it - there was nothing left of the vehicle but chunks of metal scattered about the impact area and being rescattered with every new round fired into it. My Instructor didn't let me aim - as there wasn't anything to actually aim at anyway and he didn't want to take to long - so he just pointed the tube at the impact area with his hands and told em to fire.
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My uncle found an old crate that used to hold bazooka rounds in the desert years ago.
So, being Dutch I had to look up which slang it could have been. It was "bazuin", which is a trumpet, like in the book of Revelation.
When someone is going around telling a story, often false, we use the expression "rond bazuinen"..."trumpeting around."
I heard that by the end of WWII the US was also using another portable AT, the M48 recoilless rifle, don't know if was made to substitute the Bazooka or it took another role, thing is that both got further development, the Bazooka with the superbazooka and the M48 with a larger warhead, I think 90mm, but don't remember the name, both were phase out with the M72 LAW and the Carl Gustav.
Primary purpose of recoiless guns (57 and 75mm for WW2 then 90 and 106 postwar)) was knocking out bunkers and pillboxes. Relatively flat trajectory and enough range to hit firing slits from non-suicidal ranges, while being portable enough to be manpacked. Having a HEAT round for dealing with armor was a nice side effect.
Most accurate dipiction of a bazooka they don't take 5 minutes to Hit the target like in some movies
I was awesome. The most incredible film I’ve seen of the history of the bazooka. Very very good. Digging up all these little known war films. Very nice touch.