The near tank is an M4A3 Sherman
Dozer.
The far tanks are 45 ton M26
Pershings.
1st Brigade came to Korea with a
whole Battalion of them. Seriously underpowered,
the Army used the more modern M46 Patton, but the
M26 was still much more than a match for the
T34
The Army lost most of its battles
in the Pusan Perimeter. The 1st Provisional
Marine Brigade won every time. In the Naktong
Battles they destroyed the previously unbeaten NK
4th Division and arguably prevented North Korea
from capturing Pusan and thus driving us out of
Korea altogether. General Walker, Eighth Army
Commander at the time, called them his "Fire
Brigade."
That the Brigade could even be
formed was a near miracle. Truman thought he had
virtually destroyed Marine combat effectiveness,
disliking the USMC in the first place, and
thinking Infantry warfare had been eliminated
forever by the advent of nuclear weapons. Korea
proved him wrong, on two counts. Ground warfare
had become the chosen tactic for the communists
to use in advancing their ideology, and the
Marines refused to be destroyed. For an account
of how they responded so quickly and effectively
to meet the Korean crisis, and for details of how
well they fought there, I've put this
wonderful short book on-line, Fire
Brigade. The read is
well worth while.