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Tango0114 Mar 2015 11:00 p.m. PST

"In 1945, Wilbur "Bill" Brunger was an engineer with the U.S. Army, and it was his job to break things. Namely, three underpasses on the Autobahn near Dortmund, Germany.

He had to break the underpasses, so the rubble would block the road from any attacking enemy vehicles. But as Brunger and a squad of soldiers attempted to take control of the underpasses, they spotted German armored half-tracks coming their way.

Fortunately, he had the right tool for the job at hand—an M-9 Recoilless Rocket Launcher—better known as a "bazooka." Brunger fired a round at one of the half-tracks.

"It must have had ammunition because it blew, I'd say, a hundred…"
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