Japanese Couldn't Stop This Marine With a Two-Man Weapon — Until 16 Bunkers Fell in 30 Minutes

Why PFC Douglas Jacobson used a bazooka alone during WW2 — and destroyed 16 Japanese positions in 30 minutes. This World War 2 story reveals how one Marine operated a two-man weapon solo.

February 26, 1945. Private First Class Douglas Jacobson, 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division, Hill 382, Iwo Jima. The bazooka team ahead of him took fire and went down. Jacobson grabbed the M1A1 launcher and four rockets. Every training manual said this was impossible — bazookas required two men, one to fire and one to load. Marine instructors called it suicide.

They were all wrong.

What Jacobson discovered that morning wasn't about following protocol. It was about speed and momentum in a way that contradicted everything Marine Corps training taught. By the end of that assault — the Battle for Hill 382, the "Meat Grinder" — other Marines started improvising with weapons designed for crews. And they survived.

This solo technique spread unofficially through Fourth Marine Division, Marine to Marine, saving lives before appearing in any after-action report. The principles discovered on Hill 382 demonstrated that desperate innovation could overcome equipment limitations under fire.

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