'Bazooka Charlie' Was a Nazi Killer

Sometimes in life, you’re not given the cards you would have hoped for. Be it poor decisions along the way, circumstances beyond your control or just bum luck, people rarely come into any situation with everything going exactly the way they want it.

The mark of a successful man, in many cases, is how people “make lemonade with the lemons life gives you.” In the case of Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter, it was a matter of how many rocket launchers he could strap onto a grasshopper- and his efforts landed him a well-deserved place in the history books.

Born in Illinois near the Rock Island Arsenal back in 1912, Charlie Carpenter was a soft-spoken and calm individual, who eventually became a high school history teacher after graduating from a Kentucky university.

When World War II broke out, Carpenter -who had the advantage of being college-educated- left his students behind and signed up in 1942, graduating basic training, officer candidate school and flight school.

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