Relishing both his story and the telling of it, gruff, grizzled Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr., chief of Army Ordnance, last week stripped some of the mystery from one secret U.S. weapon, the rocket-firing anti-tank gun which soldiers have dubbed the bazooka.
General Campbell told a Cincinnati audience that bazookas are:
> Light enough to be lugged and fired by one man.
> So simple that orderlies, clerks, truck drivers and others unskilled with firearms can use them.
> So efficient in short-range armor-piercing that a foot soldier is "master of any tank which may attack him."
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