Master list for the new Korean War range - Input required!

[fsn]

The evidence would suggest the white star was used at some time, but there's lots of photos without the star.

I'll do them all 'left side up'. Sorry, Nobby.

Wouldn't be allowed in my brigade. "Tuck your shirt in, pull the brim down or I'll have you on jankers so fast you'd overtake Mr Giuseppi Farina on the straight ... and get your hair cut."

[Techno]

He, that pays the piper, says....."Stop playing the sodding air guitar...and make the figures the way I want them."

(As if he would.)

Cheers - Jimmy Page.

[Sunray]

Right forum - new task - Korean War artillery with crews.  Seek, load and post !   

[fsn]

What, any nation?

[fsn]

Yanks


Good British chaps (2nd on left with required fag)

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Canadians



New Zealanders (yes, I know you want uniforms, but the kit is interesting too)

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/kiwis-in-korea-when-the-cold-war-ran-hot/

Royal Artillery


Hat brim all down. 

[fsn]

Not artillery RUR, but a useful pic


More Yanks ... with a huge 8" weapon


Leatherneck rocketeers

[fsn]

Googled "85mm D-44 korean" ... got this 


Aussies with prisoners ... interesting roundel on jeep


Going back to another question ... Centurions all with white stars.


South Korea AT gun

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Artillerymen in the 3rd row.


It it just me, or do these chaps look very bored?

[Sunray]

Great stuff Nobby. Thank you for taking the trouble to source them.   

  Gunners work hard with the upper body to "serve " a  gun.  Berets and woolly pullys would do well for the Brits.

The images of Canadian 25pdr being towed by American manufactured lorries are informative.   

We have a few gunners in WW2 and US Marine range that can proxy. 

We will need KPA and South Korean gunners.  Although I am cognisant that KPA left artillery north of the Yalu River in the opening invasion, gamers will at some point demand them. The SU-76 will need a KPA crew.
South Korean gunners in a field cap, could proxy for Canadians and many post war crews. 

[fsn]

PLA



ROK 75mm Pack

[fsn]

You could do some in trousers and boots - no shirt or hat and they would serve for just about everyone. 

[Leon]

I've just found this site with a list of all the artillery used in the war, we'll just need to assign these to the various nations: https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/korean-war-artillery.asp

[Sunray]

The ZPU series of AAA would be mighty to have included in the Korean range.  They would proxy well into the 1980s in all sorts of bush wars with Soviet/WP clients.

[mart678]

Hi Leon

Its missing quite a few pieces doesn't have the 6pdr(M57) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_6-pounder or some of the SP guns

[Techno]

Thanks for finding all those reference piccies, Nobby ! 

I was about to thank you last night, when EE played silly sods again.
(One of my absolute pet peeves.....Log in to the forum....Visit 'unread posts since your last visit'....Then the internet 'fails'.... Making it damn hard to find what I've missed without going through pages and pages of 'the most recent posts !'....I'll just have to catch up slowly.)

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

That artillery list - NO 25pdr, used in large numbers. Also don't think many if any 17pdr were sent. No US RCL's shown. Overall not a good reference.


IanS

[Sunray]

Ian' s on the money. 

I have seen images of 25prds (Brit & Commonwealth) I may have seen British 6pdrs ?  No 17pdrs as yet .

The list seems to annotate what was around in 1950-53, but like the Comet may not have been deployed to the warzone.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Sorry definitely no Comets, we used Cents, a small number of Cromwells (rgt recce Troop), and the first squadron there was equipped with Churchill VII Crocodiles, WITHOUT flame trailers. I suspect the 17pdrs weren't sent, the super Bazooka and Cents thought to be sufficient to deal with any armour threats. BAT was also possible, but again I don't think any went.


IanS

[Sunray]

Sorry definitely no Comets, we used Cents, a small number of Cromwells (rgt recce Troop), and the first squadron there was equipped with Churchill VII Crocodiles, WITHOUT flame trailers. I suspect the 17pdrs weren't sent, the super Bazooka and Cents thought to be sufficient to deal with any armour threats. BAT was also possible, but again I don't think any went.


IanS

Ummm.  Which is the point I was making.    Read what I posted.

A lot of these "army lists" annotate what was available/issued in 1950-53 but that does NOT mean they were actually deployed in the theatre.  8  I cited the Comet as a classical example  - it even appeared in - was it CWC Korea OOBs  ?

I would stick to (a) sourced images that can be identified as Korean War (b) primary source reports and well researched histories.
The BAT ? Don't think so. It was never mentioned at Warminster as being deployed in Korea- and instructors always were keen to stress any live firing a weapon had.