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Yes, amazing simplicity and only required the same skills as shooting your service rifle - leading, windage, and elevation. My First Sergeant repeatedly told us, "If your attack is going well, you're walking into an ambush". I can't overstate the beauty of simple weapons when you fingers...

Phil - I have the M20 bazooka FM and TM. I'm going to scan to PDF (when I can figure out how to do that without destroying, these are 1955 printings) and post them as well.

I don't know. I'm looking for a detailed history book of the bazooka myself. I'm going to pop over to YouTube, there were a couple of good training films on the WWII bazooka on Jeff Quitney's page a while back. I've seen the picture of the bazookas on the L-4 struts. I think the guy (or...

Thanks for the rocket pictures. I finished repainting and reassembling the tube this weekend. I needed a few pictures of the rocket, particularly the wires and the safety band. Somehow, you knew that and posted them. If that is a skill, I need you to teach me how you did it, because, even...

The Korean War ain't M*A*S*H!! AMEN! Alvin York is from my home state, he is a hero of mine, both for his conscientious objection and his valor and courage under fire. Contrary to Howard Hawks and Gary Cooper, he did not carry the '03, he trained on it but used the 1917 in combat. We have a...

All kidding about cool points aside, the preservation we do is important to our country's future. I have found that if you don't like the term "The Forgotten War" in regard to the Korean War (my Dad certainly NEVER forgot it), for example, you've got to be the change in your community. So I...

I seem to recall someone at some briefing saying the flamethrower was not media friendly. I'm just spitballing here, but getting hit with four incendiary rockets in a bunker would not be all that different, in terms of dying, than a flamethrower. Both of them kill you and it hurts the entire...

As a gun collector, I can tell you the only guns ever regret are the ones you sell or should have bought!

I'm impressed and inspired!

Now, for a few dollars more, you can have a kraut pistol!

Even works in sign language!

Smacking a TOW round...no thanks...I'll just take your word for it, sir.

That seems right. I've seen those tubes, I'll bet if I can't find one I can make a sufficiently realistic looking facsimile. I never saw a bazooka anywhere but a museum. We knew that there were old recoilless rifles in storage but I never saw one. i was told they were kept for use in...

You know it. I hope they are brought back. As I understand it, the return of M1 Garands and Carbines from South Korea was delayed for years (Obama Administration, IIRC) because they were assault rifles. Is there an emoticon for roll eyes? I can't find it, my own eyes are rolling at the...

Similar to Movie That must have been the inspiration for the Clint Eastwood movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974). There was also a Brinks armored car facility robbery in 1965 that used a Lahti 20 mm anti-tank weapon.Check it out...

I just purchased a 1955 demilitarized M20 bazooka. Why? Because bazooka, that's why. It also is from my M38A1's era and, again, because bazooka. I cannot stress enough the importance of "because bazooka". I also have a training round, manual, and depot manual. Aside from needing...