Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeble armament, the initial weakness and panic of the South Koreans; the fact that the mere appearance of the first U.S. troops in the line failed to turn the tide of battle; the failure of light bazookas, 105-mm. howitzers and, finally, of Sherman tanks to stop the Red armor. The inexorable advance of invaders against defenders who had complete command of the air was something new under...
Tank Terror. Like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the North Koreans attacked early on a Sunday morning (June 25), and struck south in a six-pronged drive, with a heavy force of armor aimed at Seoul. U.S. intelligence had reported that North Korean troops were massed on the border, but the enemy had achieved surprise by a prior series of false alarms in the form of border raids, so that no one paid enough attention this time. This time it was not a raid...
These two U.S. battalions were committed piecemeal at Osan, to delay the enemy's approach to the Kum River line and Taejon. The Americans, at this stage, had no tanks and their light bazookas and antitank weapons were no match for the Red armor. They fell back. But their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun...
...guns) arrived, they were smashed by the harder-hitting 858 of the enemy's T-34 tanks. Thereafter the U.S. avoided tank-to-tank slugging until heavier Pershings, with 90-mm. guns, began to reach Korea at the end of July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River line could not be held, the defenders would soon be compressed...
...Written by a U.S. merchant seaman to an officer with the Seventh Fleet off the China coast, it said: "I am on a ship I am ashamed to be aboard . . . We are blockade running [to] Communist China. We are hauling thousands of drums of oil and gasoline . . . and steel armor plate, tools and parts to the damned Reds . . . If you guys sight us you ought to blow this [ship] sky-high even though she flies the American flag...