Had two pistol grips (one with trigger) and a shoulder step which contained the battery.First used in combat in 1942, on the Russian Front via lend-lease and by American forces during Operation Torch in November 1942. First model adopted from Captain Edward Uhl's prototype anti tank grenade and Colonel Leslie Skinner's rocket design.The following weapons are in the M1 Series of Rocket Launchers: Later rockets used a new propellant, Blastless Bazooka Propellant (BBP) that eliminated temperature-related burn time issues.

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.īazooka rockets are often depicted with burning engines and smoke trails in fiction, which is incorrect: the rocket motor burns out while the projectile is still inside the launch tube, except for early-production rockets at extremely cold temperatures where it may still be burning for a short time on exit. 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. 'Bazooka' is a term commonly applied to a series of recoilless launchers used by the US military during WW2 and the Korean War.

1942 call of war rockets