Katyusha

The song "Katyusha" was written by Mikhail Isakovsky and Matvei Blanter.

The Russian Katyusha is a multiple rocket thrower of which nothing is known except what can be seen on released photographs.

The development of these projectors was spurred During World War II, the Soviet Union fired Katyusha rockets from the ground or truck mounted racks. The standard Katyushas were 6 feet long, weighed 92.5 pounds, and had a range of 3 miles.

A curfew was clamped down on December 21 upon the Arab village of Battir, south of Jerusalem, near where security forces on December 20 found the rocket launchers from which two Katyushas were earlier fired into a Jerusalem residential area.