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Old 01-14-2012 | 04:50 AM
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philipat
 
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Default RE: M45 Build

ORIGINAL: Pershing.Driver

I found a picture off a 6th tank M45 in Korea crossing a river on the Pusan break out - it had the periscope guards over the two middle periscops as well as the two front hatches.
Meaning the Pusan Perimeter? I didn't think there weren't any M45s during the Pusan Perimeter. I thought that those came later.

As I recall, the first medium armor to arrive in Pusan (or Korea for that matter) were the Marines' M26s...and those were new to the Marines (1st Tank Bn, I think). The Marines never had the M45. They used the M4A3(105) instead as a support tank. Later in the war, they started to receive the M46s.