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In one of the most famous photographs from the war in Iraq and still gripping his 9mm Beretta, a seriously injured 1st Sgt. Brad Kasal is carried from the “Hell House” by Lcpl Chris Marquez and Lcpl Dane Shaffer on November 13, 2004.
1st Sgt. Kasal lost much of his blood and nearly lost his right leg after being shot seven times by insurgents. His body was peppered with shrapnel as he used his body to shield an injured younger Marine, PFC Alex Nicoll, from a grenade blast.
For his heroic actions that day while serving as first sergeant of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, Brad Kasal received the Navy Cross.
(Photo by: Lucian Read)
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My colleague aims the PIAT. At that moment I notice the round in the barrel has not been primed. "Stop, stop!" He looks at me. "You've forgotten the primer." I can see he's a bit over excited as he's only just arrived on the front line. I grab the PIAT away from him and fit the primer. I press the heavy weapon into my shoulder. The tank is in front of me, as if on a plate. I can see the enormous armour plating and the smoke coming from its muzzle. I set my sights. Slowly... carefully... The tank fires, below us again. I aim just behind the turret. There! I squeeze the trigger. The PIAT recoils, the round flies through the air... nearly there... It misses the tank and explodes to the rear of it. "Fuck!" Now my colleague tears the PIAT out of my hands. I don't stop him. I load a new round. Two more shots from the tank. Presumably they haven't noticed us. Suddenly it dawns on me - we're on the second floor! "Aim lower, much lower, under the tracks. We're too high up here." The barrel of the PIAT tilts down. I'm oblivious to everything glued to the gap in the wall. The weapon barks. There's a flash of light against the side of the tan. Got him! The thank is momentarily covered in smoke. There's a flash and an explosion nearby.
Zbigniew ‘Deivir’ Czajkowski, a corporal and patrol leader with the Home Army’s ‘Parasol’ scout battalion during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising describes using a PIAT against a German tank during street fighting.
Soldiers from the Home Army’s Czata 49 battalion with newly arrived PIATs not the parachute containers (source)
From Warsaw 1944 - An Insurgent’s Journal of the Uprising, Z. Czajkowski (2012)
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US Marines wearing experimental urban camo during Operation Urban Warrior 1998