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http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../bazooka-1.htm
Quote:
At the first demonstration in Washington, DC, in May 1942, Soviet observers had requested bazookas. Consequently, a large shipment arrived in the USSR about the same time as the arrival of the shipment to Egypt. The Red Army was supplied with this weapon to use on the Eastern Front against the Germans.
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so what we know more or less "for sure" is the Russians got them at about the same time they arrived in N.Africa and they didn't like them all that much. They may or may not have sat in storage until they were given to assault troops ( AKA " cannon fodder" ) crossing the Vistula but *IF* that is indeed the case then the date in service needs to be extended to at least Febuary 1945.
one " creative" way to handle this would be to create a second unit so that one unit would be active only in early 1943 and the second only active in early 1945 but I think I'm just going to stick with one but extend it to Feb 1945 to cover the Vistula crossing