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Japan plans to appoligise to the North Koreans for
their colonization - but what about the South?
I think the closest thing was Ryuichi Hashimoto's
(I think it was him) pan-asian apology that he personally
made (not as a sweeping government apology) in
1996.
I guess if South Korea lobs medium range ballistic
missiles over Japan they'll get an apology after four or five years?
Last night I was watching a Korean movie that
showed Southern propoganda (possibly) about Korea's special forces
training in which they used civilian prisoners to
bayonet (like the Japanese in Nanking according to Iris Chang).
Dad asked "are those North or South
Koreans?"
I replied with "North Korean ofcourse. I
think that North Korea is a combination of Japanese Imperialist and Stalinist
systems."
Dad: "Wow, no wonder why they are so messed
up."
Anyway, as far as special forces training in North
Korea goes, did they have it in the Korean War, and how brutal was
it?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:09
PM
Subject: Re: AAA ground support
And also some regular 37mm/50cal M15A1's vice
M19's at least in AAA battalion supporting the 24th ID at the
beginning, according to the picture books about KW armor. I suppose
therefore they were mostly lost (or converted to "specials"?) rather than
withdrawn from service. In fact the official history mentions loss of AAA
vehicles in some of the roadblock debacles of July 50 w/o specifying
exactly.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:30
PM
Subject: Re: AAA ground support
I looked up the TO&E of the
time and it gives regular (e.g. "Heavy") infantry and armor divisions an SP
AA Battalion. The battalion has four batteries, each of which has two
platoons with four squads each. Two squads have an M16 or M16A1 Multiple Gun
Motor Carraige (MGMC) with a turret mounting four 50 cal M2HB machine guns,
and two squads have an M19 or M19A1 Twin 40mm SP Gun. Total is 4 of each per
battery and 16 of each per battalion.
The halftracks only differed
in that the A1 had big "elephant ear" shields around the gunner's turret.
The M19 and M19A1 differed in that the A1 had a "donkey engine" APU for
power when the vehicle was not moving.
Most appear to have been used
as ground support as there wasn't much call for AA during the day after
September 1950, and without radar they couldn't deal with "Bedcheck
Charlie".
The Maxson M45 turrets from the M16s were used in Vietnam
as instant fire support (for the same reason), but the M19 had been replaced
by the M42 Duster (also a twin 40mm weapon) that also provided ground
support.
There were a handful of "M15 Specials" in Korea which used
a flatbed version of the halftrack with a single 40mm gun on it. But the
rest were TO&E units and standard divisional formations.
Cookie
Sewell
AMPS
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