![In a rubble-strewn Norman street near St. Martin des Basaces, a British soldier is on alert at his PIAT gun, ready to engage enemy tanks.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WW-Ordnance-1-4C-May02-e1710962710570-760x428.jpg)
PIAT gun
Ordnance: The British PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank) Gun
By Robert Barr SmithIt was surely as ungainly a weapon as was ever made, and one of the clumsiest. It was a 3-foot, 32-pound steel tube with a monopod to support it, a huge trigger on the underside, and a padded shoulder piece at one end. Read more