Source: Chinese movie "Volunteer Army: The Struggle of Life & Death"

Further Watching:

• Same movie depicting Matthew Ridgway & the Battle of Chipyong-ni
• Same movie depicting the UN Counter-Offensive in May-June 1951
• Matthew Ridgway depicted in an older Chinese movie
• Chinese cartoon "Year Hare Affair" depicting Matthew Ridgway

Further Reading:

Further Reading:

• "Red Eclipse: Halting the Communist Drive on Seoul" by Marc Bernstein
  • Van Fleet wanted the Eighth Army’s artillery to expend five times the normal rate of fire against enemy attacks. This became known as the “Van Fleet Load.”
• "Tethered Eagle: Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet and the Quest for Military Victory in the Korean War" by Robert B. Bruce
  • On 14 May 1951, Van Fleet told Hoge and his staff at IX Corps headquarters, “I want to stress again that my idea of obstacles and fire power is vast. We must expend steel and fire, not men. I want to stop the Chinaman here and hurt him. I welcome his attack and want to be strong enough in position and fire power to defeat him. I want so many artillery holes that a man can step from one to another. This is not an overstatement; I mean it!”

OK, I may have exaggerated some things...but the point still stands

context:

Polish cavalry were actually reasonably effective in the right circumstances. While mainly using their horses as rapid transport and fighting dismounted with then-modern weapons, even a classic cavalry charge proved situationally effective.

At the battle of Krojanty however, after a charge dispersed the local German infantry, they were caught out by some nearby armored cars with machine guns. Nazi propagandists filmed their panzers rolling by the dead horses and the rest is popular misconception.

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Hailing all the way from the country that made a war song about fried onions and eats baguettes, we have the one and only:

MAT-49 Submachine Gun

It’s quite the sexy gun, it has a folding magwell and a telescopic stock, and does so perfectly with it, and it is sure to impress her peers. She maintains her beauty by being reliable as always, and the French make sure she runs properly.

The source is the incoherent ramblings of the voices in my head.