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Show S topping Of Wars ' Rocket Projectile Used In Invasion American troops in France are using a secret rocket projectile developed by the ingenuity of American industry, it can be revealed re-vealed now that the invasion is under way. The rocket projectile weighs less than 50 pounds and can be carried by paratrooper or foot soldier, but it has the destructive force of a shell from a 4 -inch gun weighing more than 14,000 pounds. Describing the operation of the new weapon, C. Donald Dallas, president of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., which manufactures the projectile, said it could be fired from landing craft to low down a barrage on a hostile beach or discharged in salvos from airplanes. air-planes. The shell is fired from a gun described as "a grown-up bazooka." |