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Looking at the list for the Korean War UN list on p62, the Cromwells, Comets, Centurions and Churchills are restricted to [3] each.

There are no caveats as far as I can tell, nor does the Battlegroup creator indicate differently, but it would appear that all four types could be used together 51-53.

I assume that reflects the mix of nationalities and units deployed as part of 1st Commonwealth Division. However,

8 KRIH - Centurion and Cromwell(Recce)
7 RTR - Churchill (neutered Crocs). C Squadron
5 Skins - Centurion
1 RTR - ?
5 RTR - ?
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) - Sherman M4A3E8

The wiki entry for the Comet indicats that they were used in Korea, but so far I cannot find out who used them.

The ARS topic on Comets in Korea comes down firmly on the view of no Comets, only Centurions.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/rac/121870-comets-korea-...

As to numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Commonwealth_D...

The British fielded once regiment of 4 Squadrons (64 Centurions) rotating regiments plus a Churchill Squadron for a short period early on.

The Canadians fielded one squadron (on rotation) of Shermans.

Any information welcome.

Steve

That's a good point about using them all together - you probably shouldn't be able to.

Bar the 7 RTR Squadron - which was the Hong Kong tank Squadron, all British Regiments had Cent 3's, and I've never heard of Comets being used.

Comets did end up in Hong Kong till 1960's? and I think were replaced by Scorpions.

IanS

There is a pic from the IWM in this post that's supposed to be a Comet in Korea, but unfortunately the source link is dead:

http://www.ww2f.com/topic/39391-was-the-comet-t...

This is the IWM pic:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/2...

Great, thanks - so there was one

Well the Imperial War Museum thinks there was...

Who are we to argue?