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. The vehicle variant was mass-produced and saw battle beginning in late March 1945, with a total of 4542 vehicles of both suspension types manufactured. 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. At the end of August 1944, a new bogie suspension was designed. Man were they in for a shock when they met the well-trained and equipped NKA soldiers supported by armor. 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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