Measuring just over 5 feet long and firing a HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) round it was the best infantry anti tank weapon of its time and quickly copied by the Germans
in North America it was known as the French & Indian War
with the advent of the rifled musket a single shooter could be just as effective as a row of men armed with a smoothbore weapons
Marines returned to a green uniform buttoned up the front with brass buttons
John Canley eventually rose to the rank of Sergeant Major before retiring from the USMC in 1981 after 28 years of loyal and courageous service to his country and his beloved corps
10119 U.S. General George S. Patton, 1943-45 WWII K&C Fall of Berlin-Germans Measuring just over 5 feetU. S. General George S. Patton, 1943 45 Born in 1885, George Smith Patton Jr. attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the Patton Saber. As an athlete he competed in modern pentathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. He served, and was wounded, commanding the fledgling tank corps in World War I. In WWII