From the 20th century to the 21st century, countless wars broke out. The United States is a country we are very familiar with, has always been the image of a superpower in front of us, naturally participated in many wars, but the number of failures is countless, but there is a war that Americans are the least willing to mention and the most humiliating war.
We all know that this war is the Korean War, so the question is", "How many casualties did this war last for three years cause to be in the U.S. military?" First of all, we need to understand what the "38th Parallel" is, a line at 38 degrees north latitude that divides the Korean Peninsula into South Korea and North Korea, and a line that causes military conflict between North and South Korea.
The "38th Line" also became the fuse of the later Korean War. Originally, this war was not a matter for China, but the us military forced it into this war, which directly affected the security of Chinese land, and North Korea asked China to support them. Chinese unanimously decided to send troops to support North Korea against the U.S. military, when China sent a total of 2.4 million Chinese volunteers.
How many people have gone to the United States? And how many people have been lost? The data shows that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army annihilated a total of 1.09 million enemy troops, including 390,000 American troops. This is a full 200,000 difference from the official US data. So why is there such a big gap between China, South Korea and the US military on casualty data, which side is lying, or the US military is lying for the sake of face? Because each country has different methods of determining death, this is one of the reasons for the huge difference.
The method of us military statistics of death data at that time: it must be in the case of mission, and those who died on the spot can be considered dead. If there had been no sacrifice at that time, those who died during the treatment would not have been killed. Another is that there must be evidence to prove that after the sacrifice, there must be friendly troops found at the scene to count, and those who have been killed and have been confirmed to be dead are considered dead, which is indeed very unreasonable, and there is a huge difference between the way of Chinese statistics.
At that time, the U.S. military was not all U.S. troops, some of them were South Koreans. Because after World War II, the U.S. army did not come and replenish the troops, but replenished some South Koreans in large quantities. However, the United States did not include the number of South Korean casualties in later statistics, which is one of the reasons for the huge difference in the number of deaths after the war.
After the war, the U.S. military did not count the number of people who were not killed by the enemy on the battlefield according to their method of counting the number of casualties, and according to statistics, there were about 100,000 people. Then, these people are in line with General Chen Geng's statement that "in the Korean War, the United States lost more than 300,000 troops", indicating that General Chen Geng's statement is still quite credible.
In this war, the U.S. military invested 3.5 million tons of ammunition, and it should be noted that the U.S. military put in only 6.96 million tons of ammunition in World War II. This was also the war in which the U.S. military consumed the most ammunition in World War II, and even then lost more than 300,000 troops.
Although the two sides signed an armistice in July 1953, if they did not sign an armistice, they might end the war by signing an agreement of surrender, which is why the United States has been reluctant to mention the war. But do the Americans really think they lost this war?
This is clearly not, and they have been saying to the outside world that they are "fighting for justice." There is not a single film about the Korean War in American cinematography, because they cannot find a single reason to say that they "fought for justice." As General Chen Geng later said: "In order to cover up the fact of their failure, they can only falsify the data." ”
Conclusion: The Korean War brought out China's international status, and it should be known that at that time, China had just been founded, and the disparity between the enemy and our forces was too great to defeat a country like the United States, but the volunteer army still went to the battlefield to defend the country. This war has also produced many martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the motherland, and we as future generations should learn from the spirit of the martyrs, and always "do not forget the original heart and remember the mission." ”