Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

What sort of rifle is the armalite Scribe and that rocket that Fred had must be a whole lot more dangerous than the M72 that I used as it had bugger all back flash. Chapter 12

Originally Posted by Dundee

What sort of rifle is the armalite Scribe and that rocket that Fred had must be a whole lot more dangerous than the M72 that I used as it had bugger all back flash. Chapter 12

The armalite was a AR 15 designed by Eugene Stone and taken in by the American military as the M16. It was a selective fire weapon with a 1x14 twist firing a 5.56 x 45 round. The projectile was a boat tail "with unstable characteristics" making little round red entry holes that were often ringed with a four inch circle of deep black and blue flesh that had been destroyed.

This rocket was the M72. Dont forget 'Dundee' many of these battles took place at night, black as the inside of a cow, in thick jungle. My job was to brass the place up. Other people go more for the big bang theory.

I forget now the back blast danger area of the M72 but every time my no 2 wanted to let his go I found myself looking down the tailpipe of the bloody thing. If you are looking down the tailpipe of it at less than a metre when it goes off the M72 is guaranteed to melt you face off right down to at least your shoulder levels.

I disliked the bloody thing and when my no 2 started to wave his around I was scareder of it than I was of the VC.