I’ve also located a very interesting report on tank warfare during the Korean War. There is information on the performance of the T-34 tank from US reports and N. Korean POW interrogations. It seems the T-34/85 had serious shortcomings in Korea…I’ll write more about this in the future.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
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information from a report titled ‘Penetration
and compromise of OSS in Switzerland and Western Europe’ in Allen
Dulles and the compromise of OSS codes in WWII.
I’ve also located a very interesting report on tank warfare during the Korean War. There is information on the performance of the T-34 tank from US reports and N. Korean POW interrogations. It seems the T-34/85 had serious shortcomings in Korea…I’ll write more about this in the future.
I’ve also located a very interesting report on tank warfare during the Korean War. There is information on the performance of the T-34 tank from US reports and N. Korean POW interrogations. It seems the T-34/85 had serious shortcomings in Korea…I’ll write more about this in the future.
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Read that report. Very interesting. Found the parts on people sabotaging the Communist cause to be the most interesting, I hope you write on wartime sabotage.
ReplyDeleteYes, it’s the report ‘The employment of Armor in Korea’ vol 1 that I first saw in your site. Do you mean the statements by pow’s that they were anti communist and sabotaged equipment?
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I must say one thing in favor of the T-34 engine, all tank engines are high performance and have rather short times between rebuilds.
Yes, it actually says a lot that one guy managed to send quite a few tanks into a river and other things without being caught. I guess incompetence was rife for North Koreans.
Here: http://defencen.blogspot.gr/2013/06/modern-military-vehicles-electricity.html
DeleteAs for that specific report either that guy was the Korean James Bond or he was making stuff up.
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ReplyDeleteDuring your studies, did you run into any kinds of raw intercept logs or intermediate material listing frequencies, callsigns, D/F bearings, cipher keys etc.
I understand this is not exactly what the Western interrogators wanted, and that the documents were likely to be destroyed prior to surrender, but still I want to believe there are archived somewhere.
One thing I can remember is a declassified SOE document listing example "worked out keys" for their double transposition system.
= Regards, Alex the scrambler guy =
I've seen some decoded German reports listing Allied traffic (probably agents or partisan) by call sign, frequency, location, No. of bearings taken, Bearing. They can be found in British archives HW 40/76. Email me if you want a sample (check the about page).
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