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- 11/12/2003 4:01:30 AM

AmmoSgt

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Vor I am pretty sure that M9A1 was actually the US WW2 AT Rifle Grenade.
It had a warhead very very similar to the Bazooka warhead , with small variances to standoff (to allow for penetrating jet formation) and fuze timing due to a different speed of flight.
Since it is Veterans Day , A Big Thanks to all you Vets out there, I shall mention that Audie Murphy got his Bronze Star with "V" device for knocking out a German tank on the Anzio beachhead in March 44 with the AT Rifle Grenade at a range of 50 yards and then leading His men out of an ambush consisting of mutiple machine guns.

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