EDWARD Uhl, 92, died May 9, 2010.
In 1942, as an Army lieutenant with an engineering degree from Lehigh University, he and Col. Leslie A. Skinner, invented the bazzoka anti-tank weapon. They were charged to find a way for a soldier to deliver a M10 charge against enemy tanks. Uhl accidentally happened upon a five-foot tube about the diameter ofthe charge they wanted fired and it became the shoulder-fired rocket launcher nicknamed bazooka because it resembled that tube-shaped instrument.
After the prototype was tested, the Army immediately ordered 5,000 bazooka launchers and 25,000 bazooka rockets. These proved very devastating to German tanks later in the war.
American Ingenuity. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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