Model Forum / General / Models / May 2010

The rocket launchers were small portable mounts which used 37mm gun
carriages as platforms. There were 4.5" and 7.2" models, both of which
(were) on display at the Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen. The lanchers
were quite boxy and IIRC the 4.5" had 25 cells and the 7.2" had 16.

The idea at one point was "shoot and scoot" -- an Army H-19 or Marine
H2SO would come in with a slung launcher, land it, the crew would jump
out, set it up and fire a mission of one volley, rehook it, and
leave.

At the very end of the war the US deployed the first APCs -- T18/M75s
based on the new M41 light tank -- and the only place they appear to
have been used was to remove wounded troops from "Pork Chop Hill"
during the 7th Infantry Division's fight for that location.

Cookie Sewell

On May 26, 10:40 pm, "hill4...@gmail.com" <hill4...@gmail.com> wrote:

The US Army made some use of halftracks in the Korean War, but these
were mostly M16 antiaircraft models. The M39 Armored Utility Vehicle
was an APC of sorts but, like the halftracks, it had no overhead
armor, and had to be mounted and dismounted over the sides. It
probably saw more use as an ammuntion resupply vehicle than a troop
carrier. The USMC was mostly using the Borg Warner-built LVT3 series
of amtracs, and these had been retrofitted with roof protection after
World War Two. Unlike the present AAV7 series, these were not
ordinarily used as APCs after the marines had moved beyond the landing
beaches, though. As Cookie mentioned, the M75 was introduced by the
Army in the last days of the war, but the static nature of the
fighting limited its usefulness.
Gerald Owens