Most outfits didn't even have AT mines or hand-grenades for that matter. We had no affective armor, bazookas nor suitable AT rounds for artillery in-theatre to take-on the T-34/85. My impression is that most NKA armor-at least in the initial offensive-was knocked-out by artillery, air-support, and off-shore navy-guns along the western coast. Saw limited combat from August 1944 up to end of war.
Rocket Launcher attachments: Rocket Launcher T34 (Calliope) 60 4.6' rocket tubes in a frame that could be mounted above the M4 turret.
Used during battle of Normandy for breaking through bocage hedgerows. Man were they in for a shock when they met the well-trained and equipped NKA soldiers supported by armor. Sherman tanks fitted with prongs to the front of the hull. Medium Tank M4A3E8 Sherman Easy Eight Korean war Number: 35359 Scale: 1:35 Type: Full kit Released: 2018 New parts. Five years of peacetime had resulted in understrength and soft occupation-troops too-used to the good-life in Japan. Many threw down their rifles and left all their gear in a rush to the rear.
US troops took a pasting in those early, desperate days. My dad has a book of the First Cavalry Division-he was 82nd field artillery- in Korea, and it is full of picture-plates of armor in action, artillery, battle aftermath. I'd be very interested in any insights of that era you might share. I agree the Centurian was likely unmatched in the Korean conflict.
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