Why Sergeant Burns fired a bazooka at Tiger tanks from an open street during WW2 — and destroyed both with 17 rockets. This World War 2 story reveals how one soldier proved everyone wrong about fighting Tigers.
December 5, 1944. Sergeant George Burns, 415th Infantry Regiment, crouched in Lucherberg, Germany as a Tiger tank rolled into the village square. His tank destroyer crew refused to help. Every training manual said bazookas couldn't penetrate Tiger armor from the front. Command called it suicide.
They were all wrong.
What Burns discovered that morning wasn't about firepower. It was about finding weak points — ventilators, rear armor — in a way that contradicted everything the Army taught. By the end of the Lucherberg counterattack, German infantry withdrew. Four months later, Burns did it again. Same weapon. Same tactics.
This unconventional approach to engaging heavy armor — finding weak points instead of frontal assaults — challenged everything the Army taught about bazooka tactics. What happened in those two engagements would raise questions about training doctrine and the limits of man-portable antitank weapons.
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