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Usually Wartime and Postwar America via its magazines, sometimes other stuff.
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Life, November 14, 1944

Plastic launcher is easily carried on soldier’s back.  It launches 4.5-in. rocket which is equivalent to a 105-mm. shell.  Together,rocket and launcher weigh about 50 pounds.

Bazooka fires a small rocket from bales of hay without any supports.  This demonstrates the absence of recoil.  Projectile emerges at right, charge blows out the rear.

Direct hit is made on a tank by bazooka rocket.  Explosive charge sends fragments of molten metal flying as it blasts three-inch hole in the tank’s thick armor plate.

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Life, November 14, 1944

The first British soldier stand for their portrait on broken pillars in front of the Parthenon.  The best of the Acropolis’ splendid marbles and friezes were taken away to the British Museum 140 years ago.

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