When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began, the six corps of the Volunteer Army put together more than 1,300 vehicles, which was not as many as one division of the US Army. More than thirty days after the start of the war, more than 600 of these cars were blown up. For the volunteer army, which relied entirely on domestic transportation of combat materials, this greatly affected the combat capabilities of the volunteers, and the large-scale assistance of the Soviet Union did not begin until the fifth campaign, so the main source of vehicles for the volunteers in the early stage was the captured American cars. By the end of the Fifth Campaign, the Volunteers had captured nearly 5,000 American vehicles.
【Us Army Jeffrey Truck During World War I】
The United States is a country on the wheels of the car, this sentence is really not casual, as early as the First World War, the U.S. military equipped with Jeffrey four-wheel drive military trucks. But at this time, the car was still relatively primitive, jeffrey trucks had only 29 horsepower, and the load capacity was only 1.7 tons, mainly used to transport people. By the time of World War II, the U.S. military's military trucks had developed for several generations, and their numbers and performance had been greatly improved.
For example, the US military itself is equipped with a large number of mcNugg NR, McNM, Chevrolet G506, Diamond T968, Dodge WC-62, Stipunk US6, Dodge M35, M37, GMC and other heavy military trucks, in addition to a large number of Willis Jeep, Caesar Jeep, Gamma Goat and other multi-purpose light vehicles. At the outbreak of the Korean War, the U.S. Third Infantry Division had more than 1,500 vehicles of more than 17,000 people and the Second Infantry Division had more than 2,100 vehicles.
【U.S. Dodge Ten-Wheeled Truck Crossing the 38th Line】
When the volunteers fought with the U.S. army, the gap in weapons and equipment was not mentioned, and the gap in mobility brought about by the gap in the number of cars was also obvious. The 113th Division marched 72.5 kilometers in 14 hours, creating a miracle in military history. Many soldiers were tired and vomited blood on the way to the attack, and even fell down and never got up again, and the volunteers narrowed this gap with their iron will, and used a pair of iron feet to win the wheels of the car.
After the second battle, the volunteer army has recovered the area north of the 38th Line, and with the continuous advancement of the front, the logistics supply line has become longer and longer, and the dilemma of lack of cars has become more and more prominent. At that time, the country could not produce cars, and there were only two sources of cars, one was Soviet aid, and the other was captured from the US army.
【Cars abandoned by U.S. troops on the battlefield】
But in the first few campaign wars, the Soviet Union had not yet provided us with massive assistance, and the real large-scale assistance began at the end of April 1951. At the end of 1950, the Soviet Union twice transferred more than 500 cars from the Soviet army stationed in the brigade to replenish the volunteer army, but this was still a small salary for the volunteer army's car shortage. The capture from the U.S. military became an important source of vehicles at this stage.
As long as the us military is not in a favorable situation, it will abandon a large amount of heavy equipment, such as cars, tanks, artillery, and so on. In the second campaign, Yang Chunming, chief of the Ordnance Section of the 113th Division, found 200 cars hidden by the US army in a cave west of Tokugawa, which were also full of grain and ammunition, and the 113th Division issued a "foreign fortune" at once, each squad was equipped with a light machine gun and 2 submachine guns, and how many bullets and shells could be carried, which played an important role in the subsequent battles in Sansho-ri and Longyuan-ri.
[The trucks of the 1st Marine Division on the Chosin Lake Battlefield are passing through the Watergate Bridge]
After the Three Houses Blockade Battle, the US troops on the western front saw that there was no hope of fleeing south, and then turned to flee west to the sea, at which time the car became a burden, the US army abandoned a large car on the battlefield, and on the western front alone, the volunteer army captured more than 2300 cars. As seizures increased, another problem lay in front of us: too few people could drive. Some of the captured cars were almost destroyed by U.S. aircraft the next day, as long as they were not transferred in time.
In the First Battle of Yunshan to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the volunteers captured 170 vehicles, but they were not transferred in time, and they were all blown up by the US army the next day. Less than 10 percent of the 2,300 vehicles and 100 tanks captured in the second campaign were actually transferred, and all the rest were blown up by U.S. aircraft. The 20th Army captured 180 vehicles on the Eastern Front, and only 30 were driven out.
【Dodge Ten Round Card Captured by volunteers】
In the third battle, after a battle, the volunteers captured a batch of cars, and because there were not enough drivers, the soldiers had to be dragged away by manpower in the night, and more than 280 vehicles were transferred overnight. By the end of the fifth campaign, the volunteers had captured more than 4,950 American cars and destroyed more than 1,380, which was only a part of the U.S. military equipment.
[The vehicle of the Katyusha rocket is the US-aided Stipunk US6 truck]
By the time of the second phase of the trench warfare, the situation had improved and Soviet aid had arrived. Cars are available, and weapons and equipment are improved. It is worth mentioning that the Soviet"Katyusha" rocket launcher made the US military afraid, and the car used in this rocket is the American Stipunk US6, and the Soviet Union obtained nearly 150,000 US6s from the United States through the "Lend-Lease Act" during World War II, and its excellent performance made the Soviet army praise, and later it also became the vehicle of the "Katyusha" rocket.
If the US military knew that the rockets that hit its head were all transported by its own car, how would it feel?