Bazooka Charlie, the brave young Major Charles Carpenter who attached bazookas to his L-4 Grasshopper.  Fed up with seeing German tanks from the air and not being able to do anything, Charles fitted out his Grasshopper spotter plane with a bazooka upgrade.

Follow the Major's journey to help liberate Europe and the discovery of Rosie the Rocketer in recent years and it's restoration by the Collings Foundation

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Aviation Week's Joris Janssen Lok provided this Netherlands Defense Ministry video recorded by a Royal Netherlands Air Force AH-64D Apache attack helicopter during recent combat operations in southern Afghanistan. You can see and hear the crew talking to U.S. special forces on the ground, locating and identifying a Taliban position inside a quala-type farmhouse, zoom in on it, maneuver to get into a firing position, and then engaging the target with a salvo of 30-mm rounds. At the end of the video, some of the Taliban can be seen running away, trying to escape. For an in-depth interview with the Air Commodore commanding Netherlands helicopter operations, see the March 2008 issue of Defense Technology International magazine (http://.aviationweek.com/dti ). See also Aviation Week's Ares defense technology blog (http://.aviationweek.com/ares ).