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Show America's Answer to Nazi: Rocket Projectiles Loading Projectile Yank shown loading a projectile into the rocket armament of the far wing of the P-47 Thunderbolt. Arrows indicate the rocket projectiles, pro-jectiles, one on each side of the Thunderbolt. Nazis complain that the new rocket is "unfair" "un-fair" and does not give them sufficient opportunity op-portunity to get under cover. U. S. army officials report that its effect will be increased. in-creased. ( fx 1:, Rocket Armament of P-47 P-47 Thunderbolt has eight deadly .50-caliber .50-caliber machine guns in addition to the new rocket gun armament. Special training train-ing has been given the ground crew as well as members who operate the rocket guns. America's answer to the Nazi flying bomb has been the further development of the new rocket gun armament arma-ment on the huge P-47, which not only can do as much damage as the flying bomb, but actually does many times as much, for the bombs can be accurately placed. |