By Helmoed-Römer Heitman, Steve Camp
Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) cars are at the present time commonplace within the US, so much significant western military and plenty of different armies as a result wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South African military used to be already regularly utilizing mine-protected armored body of workers companies and patrol autos 40 years in the past whether they seemed primitive and ungainly. many years later, the South African military had reached the degree the place it will probably set up complete strive against teams into conflict zones outfitted with in simple terms mine-protected automobiles, together with their ambulances and provide vehicles. by way of then the mine-protected automobiles had additionally turn into potent to be used in strive against, instead of simply safe shipping, the Casspir being the executive instance.
More to the purpose, they stored numerous squaddies and policemen from loss of life or critical damage, and the fundamental suggestions now survive within the a variety of MRAP kinds in carrier at the present time. the dear classes discovered through the South Africans with their early designs of those combat-proven automobiles has led the rustic to develop into one of many international leaders within the layout of MRAPs that are in the neighborhood synthetic and exported worldwide. Surviving the trip is an engaging pictorial account that includes greater than one hundred twenty of those exact South African-developed autos, spanning a forty-year interval, with over 280 images, a lot of that are formerly unpublished.
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Both Corps commanders and all their Divisional commanders, who I visited in their own areas, were of the opinion that any major offensive action on our part would fail and probably with heavy losses. The NK 8th Division, a screening force, was along the west coast, but it played no important part in the impending action. The UN command sent the X Corps piecemeal, just arrived from its evacuation Page 39 Map 1. , December 1950. The authorized strength of a division was 18,935 officers and men.
In the west, north of Seoul, signs became more obvious, and CCF prisoner interrogations confirmed that a CCF attack on that section of the front was not far off. The centralcorridor road connecting Hongchon, Hoengsong, and Wonju was almost due northsouth if one ironed out the numerous twists and bends in it. On the thirtyfirst the French Battalion was shuffled around once again; this time it was reattached to the 23rd Infantry, and it stayed with that regiment throughout 1951. 14 The 72nd Tank Battalion could not cross the icy mountain passes from the south and was not present with the 2nd Division at Wonju at the end of December.
The UN command sent the X Corps piecemeal, just arrived from its evacuation Page 39 Map 1. , December 1950. The authorized strength of a division was 18,935 officers and men. UN strength was relatively stable in January 1951, with a maximum strength of 444,336. First, the Chinese attacks in the west require our attention. Farther east was the ROK III Corps with the ROK 2nd Division at its western boundary with the US 24th Division.