The volunteer prisoners of war were mainly sixteen-nation coalitions other than South Korea, mainly American soldiers, who were placed on the Korean border of Bitong.
There is a very detailed record in the book "Battlefield Diary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.". Excerpts and summaries are as follows:
The captives were very selfish, and their minds were full of money, women, and eating and drinking.
Their own people are sick, and they think "it has nothing to do with me." Before the sick number died, he took the belongings of others as his own.
To eat, you need to be absolutely average, everyone looks at the division, and the remaining piece of meat should also be cut into points. The clothes were dirty, there was no clothes to wear, and I would rather sit dry under a blanket than wash the dirty clothes.
They had many pictures of on their bodies, and their skin was tattooed with dragons, patterns, and women. They steal, gamble, gamble with playing cards, defecate everywhere, and get dirty.
They discriminated against minorities and despised black people. At the POW camp, whites gathered fires to keep warm, and blacks were crowded aside.
After a period of study, they were much better now, and the new captives saw that the old captives were not pleased and said that they had all become Communists. The old captives also did not like the selfishness of the new captives.
Why were the captives able to get rid of their selfishness after a period of time in a prisoner-of-war camp? This, of course, was bought with kindness and sincerity by my volunteers.
At first, the captives were blindly optimistic about the peace talks, and Billy Evans was sure that he would be released on July 31, 1951, and he made a well-founded bet with the other three. Obviously, he lost!
Many prisoners calculated in notebooks the total amount of salary they should receive when they returned home, and generally made plans to return home.
The U.S. side delayed and sabotaged the peace talks, and the captives turned from optimism to disappointment, and Hegelap's letter to his mother said: "First of all, we should not come here, how long will the people of our hometown support this war?" I really hope that the peace negotiators there can now do something to bring this situation to an end. To tell you the truth, if the people in the family do not act, the war will be prolonged into the next winter, and there will be very few of us who will survive. ”
Foreign prisoners are generally war-weary. In his letter, Hjirap wrote: "If this war had not broken out, I would have sat at home, but now they are thinking of me, and I am thinking of them." I believe that destruction is one of the greatest disasters of war, that I hate it, and that the most precious thing I can get is life. ”
This is how the prisoners told my family about my leniency policy. Warwick wrote in the letter: "The Third Battalion of the Second Engineer Corps was ambushed, and we lost all our equipment. Chinese treated me well, they hid us in a hole to hide from our plane.
Ironically, they had to hide from their own planes under the cover of the volunteers.
During various festivals, the captives wrote down the rich menu in detail, some of which were decorated with pictures, and these things were indispensable for writing family letters. When Lash painted the Thanksgiving menu and entertainment programs to his family, he added a sentence to the side: The Chinese volunteers are very thoughtful.
When they received tobacco, they sang happily, filling in the old song of "When We Are Together" with new words, singing: "When we receive tobacco, tobacco, tobacco, when we receive tobacco, it is so happy; ah! You look at me and smile, I look at you and laugh haha, when we receive our tobacco, the joy is incomparable. ”
According to the captives who were captured in the winter of 1951, the "United Nations Forces" fighting on the front, although silent, were aware of the liberal policy of leniency.
The British prisoners were very satisfied with the food in the camp, and in a letter to his father and family, the British prisoner Samul mentioned Thanksgiving and said: Our food makes you drool when you listen, and then I will copy a Thanksgiving menu to see what you think. We have shredded meat, roast duck, roast chicken, flower rolls, meatballs, fried chicken, fried apples, etc., as well as sake.
Kinner, a prisoner of England, wrote to his parents: "Although our food is not very accustomed to me, it is exactly the same as our instructors and guards... In the current circumstances, we accept the best possible treatment.
Some of the captives were embarrassed to walk down the streets in cotton coats, ashamed because the North Korean people were so thinly dressed, but they themselves were so warmly dressed.
04 In the prisoner of war camp, blacks were never discriminated against by volunteers.
The black cobia monk said: I was captured on November 30, 1950. My right side was wounded, and the volunteers healed not only my wounds, but also my frozen feet. When I couldn't move, two volunteers took turns carrying me on their backs, carrying their equipment on their backs. I've never seen a man carry a prisoner on his back, isn't it better to kill him than to walk on his back? If a Chinese soldier could not move, would the American soldier carry him on his back? Will I do this myself? The volunteers were always helping me, and I asked myself with a conscience, would I do this?
I asked the volunteers, "Why are you taking care of us like this?"
He said, "Because you are like us, you are the masses of the people, but you have been deceived into coming to Korea."
Dick Sun, a Prisoner of America, told his family, "How different are these things from the policies adopted by the Japanese guards I encountered in World War II!" These were two very different treatments, one was brutal, insulting, and abusive to prisoners of war, and the other was tolerant, benevolent, and respectful of human feelings. ”
One American prisoner compared the situation here with the treatment of prisoners of war by German fascists in World War II, saying: "On February 22, 1944, I was captured by the Germans, and everything except clothes was looted. I used to live in Italy for 4 months, drinking sautéed barley water twice a day, using it as coffee, eating a slice of bread, a bowl of greens, that's all there is to it. There was barbed wire around the place where he lived, and machine guns were pointed at all sides, and he could not go out of the room at night, otherwise he would be shot. Later, after its transfer to Germany, there were no difficulties in transporting under the conditions of the time, but no clothes, cigarettes, sugar and other necessities were given.
The German government at the time only allowed farmers to kill one pig a year, so there was very little time to eat meat. In the summer, working from 4:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., you don't hear the right news at all. The German guards also had specially trained hounds that deliberately injured people and could easily be shot for fouls. If you don't salute alone, you will be locked up for 7 days, eating only bread and water. Compared to the Nazi attitude towards captives, the Volunteers treated us like friends who had come to visit them.
The sick captives called the doctors and cooks "Daddy Sang" and the nurses "Mama Sang."
A letter from Casser to his parents said: "I am sick and sent to a good hospital, where I am eaten with specially made, easily digestible, nutritious food, eggs, fruits, and various meat soups. The doctor carefully examined our condition every day, gave us medicine to take, and gave us advice that was beneficial to our health. The nurses not only served us medicine, but also helped to fetch food and water, and did all the work we could not do, and under this care, my body quickly recovered.
Some of the captives wept for our medical staff's humanitarian spirit of life, and some wrote letters of gratitude to their "Daddy Sang" and "Mommy Sang" after being discharged from the hospital.
From the letters in the "Battlefield Diary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea," it can be seen that in the Korean War, the front-line warriors relied on their iron will to win the enemy. In the rear, our soldiers won the support of the American people through prisoners of war with kindness, sincerity, and peace-loving spirit, so that the anti-war sentiment in the United States was getting stronger and stronger, thus providing support for the early end of the war.
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