M1 Rocket Launcher "Bazooka": Difference between revisions
M1 Rocket Launcher "Bazooka": Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
M1 Rocket Launcher "Bazooka": Difference between revisions
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"Bazooka" is a term commonly applied to a series of recoilless launchers used by the US military during WW2 and the Korean War. It was a slang term adopted by the GIs based on the device's resemblance to a comedy 'instrument' popularized by Radio Comedian Bob Burns in the 1930s & 1940s.
Today the term is often used by the general public as a generic term for any tube-like rocket launcher; this cannot exactly be called incorrect, since "Bazooka" was only ever a nickname for the original weapon, but on this site it should only be used to refer to this particular series of launchers.
The following weapons are in the M1 Series of Rocket Launchers: