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ATIS INTERROGATION REPORT NO 3778　3 March 1951

FIELD REPORT (EXTRACT OF ADVATIS SPECIAL REPORT 028)　21 February 1951

PW cooperative, fairly intelligent, judgment of distance and direction good. Reliability - good.

Btry: 5 officers & 53 EM

Plat: 1 officer & 16 EM

Sq: 8 EM

Strength of Div, 7000 as of 20 Sep 50.

Unit trained at SUNGHO-RI (勝湖里), KOREA. The officers were trained at the No. 1 Military Academy in SADONG (寺洞), KOREA.

Was in Combat approx 1 week at KUHWA-RI (九化里).

4 casualties by small arms fire.

PW Unit received little counter-battery fire and received no damage from it.

Men are very much afraid of an air attack. When attacked by air, they are usually in position, therefore, when they hear a plane they go into foxholes which have already been dug.

Btry had 5 x 45mm anti-tank guns. 45mm AT gun was manufactured in Russia. Model was the 45mm M-1942 AT gun.

Guns were hauled by Russian made ZIS-5 and GAZ-51 trucks. Jeeps were also used.

Armor piercing and fragmentation ammunition. All were fixed rounds. Lose cap type fuses were used on fragmentation rounds only. Tips were blue color, armor piercing rounds were not painted. Usually the Btry carries about 50 rounds; however, when they travel a long distance, carry about 1,000 rounds. Artillery Btry of the 3rd Regt received all ammunition from SUKCH'ON (肅川). Btry seemed to have plenty of ammunition. Expended about 20 rd per day.

Btry CO directed fire. Fired on tanks from 1,000 meters to 600 meters.

Trucks transport ammo as far as possible then EM carry it to the gun positions. Since they travel by night they used the regular roads.

Usually organized their position in a wooded area, with good all round visibility used nets made of straw, brushes and grass which grow around the area, for camouflaging.

Taught to dig trenches while training; however, when in combat they did not have time to dig.

One Bn was usually about 100 meters behind the 45mm artillery Btry. Battalion consisted of 3 Rifle companies, 1 heavy machine gun Co and one 82mm mortar Co. 82mm mortar company had 6 mortars; heavy machine gun Co had 6 machine guns. Two tanks were used by PW company. 82mm mortars offensive and defensive weapon.

There are 3 Rifle companies to one artillery btry. Approx 110 men in a Rifle company. Weapons were rifles and an unknown number of light machine guns. Commander of the Inf - Arty was the infantry commander.

They use runners.

Usually a reconnaissance squad is sent out by the infantry companies. In turn this squad relays all enemy positions to the artillery Btry and the infantry company. Since this unit was normally in position for tanks they did not use observers to adjust fire. Platoon leader of each gun position controls the fire.

Usually a NCO is selected by the Co commander. He receives instructions and orders from Btry CO and platoon leaders.

Last calibrated 5 Oct 50.

Observed an US AT gun at the No. 1 Military Academy. Similar to the Russian 45mm M 1942 AT gun.

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