27 Dec 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[browningautorifle]

Talk about bein' talked down to...platoon dogpile. Everyone gathered examining your rocket launcher.

[Bob Seijas]

It was still top secret when first used in Operation Torch in November 1942,

[Low & Slow]

"Wait until the tank is right up close, then launch. We'll be just back over there providing covering fire."

[Mark in Rochester]

It was still top secret when first used in Operation Torch in November 1942,

From Wikipedia

November 1942 during Operation Torch, early production versions of the M1 launcher and M6 rocket were hastily supplied to some of the U.S. invasion forces during the landings in North Africa. On the night before the landings, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was shocked to discover from a subordinate that none of his troops had received any instruction in the use of the bazooka.

initially supplied with the highly unreliable M6 rocket and without training for its operators, the M1 did not play a significant armed role in combat in the North African fighting,but did provide a German intelligence coup when some were captured by the Germans in early encounters with inexperienced U.S. troops. A U.S. general visiting the Tunisian front in 1943 after the close of combat operations could not find any soldiers who could report that the weapon had actually stopped an enemy tank. Further issue of the bazooka was suspended in May 1943.