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Post  lynk2510 Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:49 pm

Within an hour, a second column of 25 T-34 tanks approached the Task Force. This second T-34 formation advanced singly or by twos, and threes, close together with no apparent formal organization. The howitzer battery hit another tank from this column in its tracks, disabling it, and damaged three more. In return, the North Korean tanks had destroyed the forward howitzer (number six) and wounded one of its crew members, had killed or wounded an estimated twenty infantrymen, and had destroyed all the parked vehicles behind the infantry line. At the main battery position one of the five remaining 105mm guns had been slightly damaged by a near miss.[1][31] At this point, several of the men in the artillery battery began deserting their positions, but Perry managed to convince most of them to return.[32] Although Smith later stated that he believed that the rounds had deteriorated with age, the ineffectiveness of the 2.36-inch bazooka had been demonstrated repeatedly during World War II against German armor.[33] Because of peacetime defense cutbacks, the 24th Infantry Division had never received improved U.S. M20 3.5-inch bazookas with M28A2 HEAT antitank ammunition, capable of defeating Soviet tanks.[34] After the last tanks passed their lines, no North Korean forces were spotted for around an hour.[32][35]
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