The weapon was, after all, new even to the Americans – regular troops did not know much more about it than the Germans. To the prisoner’s credit, he gave a somewhat misleading description of the weapon’s characteristics, either intentionally or through unfamiliarity.

The prisoner, an NCO of the US 1st Armored Division, apparently willingly provided the description of a man-portable rocket launcher capable of destroying tanks. Panzer-Division, submitted a prisoner interrogation report describing a new American antitank weapon found in Tunisia. In January 1943, a Hauptmann Buchstein, Ic (intelligence officer) of 10.