The movie "Crossing the Yalu River", everyone has watched it? This movie is edited from the TV series version, I personally recommend that you go to see the TV series version first, because the plot in that version is more abundant, but today we are going to talk about one of the things mentioned in the movie, this thing is the Lieutenant General Walker overturned, it can be said that he is definitely the most unlucky American general in the Korean War.
First of all, it is the reason for his death, very strange, at that time, his unit in the Battle of The Qingchuan River, was attacked by the volunteer army, he could only be forced to retreat, so the people took a car to prepare to go to the third and eighth lines for reorganization, probably because they ran too fast, in the process of retreat, the vehicle malfunctioned, overturned the car directly to him to die, just like this to receive a box lunch, he can be said to be quite unlucky.
Of course, this is not his most unlucky place, the most unfortunate is the pension after his death, because the pension of the American soldier who died is very exaggerated, even high enough to let the family live a middle-class life, especially a general with the rank of lieutenant general like Walker, the pension is a very large amount, but the problem is that Lieutenant General Walker did not die in battle, but died because of a car accident.
Because the cause of Lieutenant General Walker's death was caused by a car accident, in the U.S. military, it cannot be defined as a fallen soldier, it can only be regarded as an accidental death, and it does not belong to the category of fallen soldiers, so Walker's family cannot get a huge pension for fallen soldiers, and can only get the treatment of accidental death, so no matter how you look at it, Lieutenant General Walker is a sad existence.
Of course, it is worth mentioning that just before our Lieutenant General Walker was about to burp in a car accident, Truman had just proposed to Congress to promote people to become four-star generals, and as a result, one did not pay attention to God, people burped, or overturned to death, Truman was estimated to be dumbfounded, and what was even more sad was that after his death, Truman considered the problem and gave the other person the rank of general, so that his general's sign was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Of course, what's more interesting? When I checked the information, I found one thing, at that time, the volunteer army that attacked Walker's unit was actually the unit of the seventh company that appeared in the movie "Chosin Lake", which was even more interesting, but from the perspective of war, Walker's car accident may not be a good thing for the volunteer army, because the new general, the volunteer army needs to spend a long time familiar with his tactics and tactical thinking.