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grenades
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
grenades were used by infantrymen to lay...from a discharge cup fitted to a rifle or pistol. Anti-personnel grenades were mostly made of cast iron...The US M9A1 armour-piercing rifle grenade was especially effective and infantrymen...
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Grenades and Grenade Launchers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...metal. Screwed into the grenade's body is a fuse that...Besides such fragmentation grenades, smoke, chemical...World War II service rifle was fitted with an adapter to fire grenades, but it proved unpopular...After 1945, hand grenades were improved by making...Vietnam War , special ...
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grenade
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
grenade , small bomb filled with explosives...by hand or shot from a modified rifle or a grenade launcher. Grenades were in use as early as the 15th...were called grenadiers. As the grenade fell into disfavor, however, the...
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Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...another armed group, the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA). In March, 2000, the group claimed credit for a rifle grenade attack against the Department of Energy building in Manila and strafed Shell Oil offices in the central Philippines...
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The Springfield Model 1903
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...x2010;automatic Garand rifle as the standard infantry...particularly as a sniper rifle and a grenade launcher. The “...the most accurate military rifles ever produced. [See also M‐1 Rifle ; Weaponry, Army. ] Bibliography...
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Army Combat Branches: Infantry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...He can fight from armored vehicles when the situation demands. His basic weapon is the rifle and bayonet, although he has used grenades and grenade launchers , machine guns , mortars , flamethrowers , and some hand‐ held antitank...
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infantry
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Modern infantry forces are organized into platoons, companies and battalions, and are equipped with rifles, machine guns, mortars, grenades, rocket-launchers and other lightweight weapons, as well as supplies for several days of operations...
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My Lai Massacre
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...reports, the soldiers, under orders from their platoon leader Lieutenant William L. Calley, used rifles, machine guns, bayonets, and grenades to kill the villagers. Old men, women who begged and prayed for mercy, children, and babies were...
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infantry warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...of these were the bolt action rifle and the machine gun, and hand grenades and mortars . But as the war progressed the bolt action rifle was increasingly supplemented...at least down to the level of rifle companies. The infantry's traditional...
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Australia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Austen sub-machine 1,633 1,659 Rifles, .303 in 12,717 16...9 million Ammunition-mortar and grenades 3 in mortar H.E. 141,846 68,608 Grenades No. 36-hand, rifle 121,244 71,178 Mines Mines A.T...
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