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Willie Peter; Willie Pete; Willy Peter
noun
an M-34 white phosphorous antipersonnel hand grenade US
Military phonetic alphabet.- Smith released four 2.75 Willie Peter rockets. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 11, 1967
- “I’ll go to fucking Alpha company and call willy peter in on seventeen dinks and get a direct commission.” — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 49, 1972
- It was a ways off, so we fired a three-point five at him. A willy-peter round, and that’s when it got all fucked up. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 151, 1977
- V.C. standing in a field of wheat / Turned to ash by Willie Pete. — Sandee Johnson, Cadences: The Jody Call Book, No. 2, p. 149, 1986
- Kyle and Logan exchanged nodding glances, pulled the pins, and heaved their willie peters into opposite sections of the crowd. — John Skipp and Craig Spector, The Scream, p. 228, 1988
- Called “willie pete” for short, these rockets were the stock and trade of the FAC. — Tom Yarborough, Da Nang Diary, p. 27, 1990
- Willie Peter showed us where / To roll in to displease ’em. — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 159, 1990: Pop Goes the Weasel
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