The Bazooka Disaster: How America Sent Soldiers to Fight Tanks with Weapons That Didn’t Work In November 1942, American soldiers landed in North Africa carrying a new secret weapon — the Bazooka. But when enemy tanks approached and soldiers pulled the trigger… nothing happened. This is the shocking true story of how the U.S. Army sent troops into battle with anti-tank weapons that didn’t work, leading to disaster at Kasserine Pass — and how that failure forced engineers to redesign the Bazooka i