PVA 1950

Winter 1950 and the Peoples Volunteer Army is thrown into the Korean War.

Having warned the UN, USA and their allies that China would not allow a united Korea under hostile control on their border; Red China felt compelled to intervene on the side of the Communist North Koreans.

Armed mostly with Soviet weapons, as well as with Western weapons captured in the Chinese Civil War, hundreds of thousands of fast-moving Chinese PVA infantry surprised the overconfident UN Command how had consistently downplayed the danger of Chinese intervention.

The Korean War would now enter a new bloody see-saw phase that would last until 1953.

These are metal pieces that I painted in 2020.