Soviet T-34s Crushed Korea For 3 Weeks — Until America Airlifted In One Secret Tank-Killer
In the summer of nineteen fifty, North Korean T-34 tanks crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and rolled through every American defensive position for three straight weeks. Bazookas bounced off their armor. Howitzer rounds did nothing. Task Force Smith was overrun at Osan. Colonel Robert Martin was killed at Chonan firing a weapon that could not penetrate the T-34's hull at any range. The United States Army had no answer, until a crate of untested weapons was loaded onto an aircraft at Travis Air Force Base and flown across the Pacific. The 3.5-inch M20 Super Bazooka arrived at Taejon just days before North Korean armor reached the city. On July twentieth, nineteen fifty, a small team of combat engineers fired it at a T-34 for the first time in history. This is the story of how one weapon, airlifted in desperation, broke the T-34's grip on the Korean War and changed the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula. Featuring Major General William F. Dean, Colonel Charles Beauchamp, the Hundred and Fifth Armored Brigade under Ryu Kyong Su, and the soldiers of the Twenty Fourth Infantry Division who fought at Taejon with a weapon most of them had never seen before. A deeply researched military history documentary covering the opening weeks of the Korean War, the failure of American anti-tank weapons, the emergency airlift of the Super Bazooka, and the battle that proved infantry could kill a T-34. sources: Roy E. Appleman, "South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu" (official U.S. Army history), Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 on Taejon https://history.army.mil/books/korea/... https://history.army.mil/books/korea/... Air and Space Forces Magazine, "The Guns of July 1950" https://www.airandspaceforces.com/art... The National WWII Museum, "The U.S. Army's Demobilization After World War II" https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war... Modern War Institute at West Point, "Task Force Smith and the Problem with Readiness" https://mwi.westpoint.edu/task-force-... The Armory Life, "Red Armor: The T-34/85 in the Korean War" https://www.thearmorylife.com/t-34-85... The National Interest, "North Korea's 105th Armored Division: A Force to Be Reckoned With" https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reb... International Crisis Group, "Kim Jong-un's Visit to the Ryu Kyong Su 105th Armored Division" https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia-paci... North Korea Leadership Watch, "Centenary of the Birth of Ryu Kyong Su Commemorated" https://www.nkleadershipwatch.org/201...
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