The Iron Age: 1950

We arrived at Changjin Lake in 99A tanks, nicknamed the “Wall of Sighs.” American pilots cried out, “God, an Eastern dragon is prowling through the snow!”

During the Pyongyang campaign, six steel behemoths fired in unison. All that remained on the United Nations forces’ radio was a desperate “Retreat! Retreat!”

We bandaged our comrades’ wounds and taught them to operate the targeting systems. The company commander shouted at the fleeing soldiers in halting English: “Surrender... or steel rain!”

When a Tiger tank and a 99A crashed together with a roar on the streets of Seoul, MacArthur finally realized that the balance of this war had been crushed by an unstoppable tide of steel from the future.