How many casualties? Americans change every year, South Koreans are secretly changing, and now it is almost a confused account.
So if you want to answer the question of the subject, you can't just say a few numbers to explain this matter clearly.
Xiaobian felt that it was best to hold the figures released by both sides at that time, and then take the situation at that time to determine this matter.
Get to the point.
It is said that the Americans were beaten back to the 38th line by the volunteers, which was a rather huge defeat in the military history of the Americans.
Clark, the Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Forces of the United States, made the best annotation to the war: "I am the first commander in the history of the United States to sign the armistice without victory!" ”
The words were full of self-deprecation and frustration, and the general signed in July 1953, and by October 1953 he retired, drawing a satisfactory end to his military career, at least to us.
Of course, when the general retired, he became the headmaster of the Charleston Fortress Military Academy, and Clark worked in this position for another twelve years, which ushered in his first retirement.
That's interesting, isn't it? You smell from it.
Americans still feel incredible, they use all kinds of data to talk about things, always feel that they will not lose, at least not so badly.
For example, in 1950, China's GDP was only $22 billion, but what about the Americans? There are two thousand eight hundred and forty-eight billion, good ten times the gap is still multiple heads.
In the war, the Americans consumed eighty-three billion dollars, and the scale of materials on the scale was seventy-three million tons.
Looking back at our volunteer army, there are only 6.2 billion yuan, and we see that the number is not only much smaller, the units are not the same, and the materials consumed are only 5.6 million tons.
Oh, my God! These two words are estimated to be the inevitable exclamations that the Americans will issue after checking them.
So what are the results of the PLA in this war?
According to the August 14, 1953, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Command jointly issued a communiqué on the achievements of China and the DPRK.
There were 1.09 million (1093839) of the enemy, including 390,000 (397543) in the American army, 660,000 in the South Korean army (667293), and of course 29,000 in other countries.
However, according to statistics, both sides will have a certain degree of fluctuation for various reasons, but under normal circumstances, this fluctuation will not be too large.
But amazingly, the Associated Press released a data, the United States official also released a data, the two figures have a staggering gap.
In October of that year, the Associated Press released that the number of personnel losses was 1.47 million (1474269), so why not? This figure has far exceeded the figure released by China and the DPRK, a gap of nearly 400,000.
Subsequently, the United States and South Korea officially released that the sum was about 1.13 million.
Well, the ASSOCIATed Press's we'll leave it aside, after all, his data is unofficial.
At least there is a difference between the data released by the Chinese and North Korean officials and the United States, but the difference is not large, that is, about 40,000, which is acceptable.
But when the U.S. official U.S. military figures were released, this was a gap.
The number of American casualties is more than 33,000 (33,629), the number of wounded is more than 100,000 (103284), and the number of missing and captured is more than 5,000 (5178), for a total of more than 140,000 (142091).
If you compare it back and forth, you will find that this figure is not even half of the figure published by China and north Korea.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that some small partners have to ask: "So why is the total number almost the same?" ”
You can't look back at the South Korean casualty figures, and in their casualty figures, they have made up for it.
So what's going on here?
Why? At the time, many people, including Americans themselves, were questioning the official U.S. figures.
After all, there is precedent for official American deception.
At that time, the famous American journalist I.F. Stone announced that the US Eighth Army fought from January 25 to February 9, 1951, annihilating one enemy division every day.
Of course, this is not to mention, and it is said that in the ten days before the occupation of Seoul, their eighth army had a loss rate of thirty divisions per month.
Well, at that time, some people questioned whether MacArthur and these guys who led the soldiers to fight were military wizards or a top braggart king.
So indirectly, some people wonder whether the list of casualties provided by the US government itself is a lie or a lie.
After all, you can make up the number of enemies, not to mention others, fairy tales are used to deceive people, and the big guys are adults.
So let's take a look at this Korean War, and the big guys will take a look.
It is said that on June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out.
Less than three days after the two sides began to fight, the American air force could not help but be excited, and began to drop bombs on the Korean Peninsula with the plane, and their warships crouching on the sea were not idle, and the gun barrels blew up the ports on the Korean Peninsula.
It didn't take much time for the U.S. government to fight each other, and within a week, the U.S. Army began to climb south Korea.
To be honest, this war of the United States is a war of aggression at all, and he pretends to be dressed in the skin of the United Nations, and he is the executioner who slaughtered the people of the Korean Peninsula.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman described the war as a police operation.
Well, who are the policemen and who are the criminals in this war? interesting. Of course, this kind of thing has been done many times by the Americans since then, and we are all tired of this self-styled world policeman. But this is an afterthought, let's continue to talk.
So historically, the Americans sent their first infantry task force (a battalion of troops) to busan first on July 1.
"Defeat the North Koreans, it's simple! I would love to try Pyongyang's cold noodles! "Well, that's pretty much the consensus of this contingent.
The result? Not only was this contingent attached to the Twenty-fourth Division, but the entire Twenty-fourth Division, which had arrived in succession in the later period, was destroyed by North Korea.
Eighteen days of kung fu, the leader of the task force or the U.S. Twenty-fourth Division Division Andi disappeared, is he dead? No, he became a prisoner of war, a prisoner of war on the Korean battlefield, and a prisoner of war in the highest military position in the United States. He was held in Camp Six near Pyongyang, unaware that his ideal of eating a cold Meal of Korean noodles had not been realized.
After three years of hard work, Andy's weight increased from one hundred and thirty pounds when he was caught.
Well, this doesn't seem to tell the story.
In fact, Xiaobian only wants to tell the big guys that the arrogance of the US military, and there are not many senior commanders who tell the big guys that the Americans died on the Korean battlefield.
Do you want to wow that senior commanders are dead, let alone ordinary American soldiers?
Andy wasn't dead, he was just caught, so who else died?
First came Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army, a guy who was much liked by MacArthur but not welcomed by the U.S. government.
Of course, you could say that Walker died in a car accident, but don't forget that he was in a car accident when he fled south with his troops.
From here you can feel Walker's panic. A commander second only to MacArthur died in a car accident. And he was killed by a truck driven by a South Korean (General Bradley's Memoirs of the War).
For Walker's death, the Americans were rather low-key, after all, the morale of American soldiers was on the verge of collapse.
You don't know that Ridgway, who accepted Walker's position, not only wrote a suicide note and distributed his property before leaving for North Korea, but also took a family portrait with his family.
Ridgway was equally frightened and went his own way back to Walker.
In fact, the process of Ridgway going to North Korea to take over was not very smooth, the plane he was on, so that the suspension did not hit the mountain, the wings of the wing were so few yards away that they were drawn to the top of the mountain, and when the plane stopped, the fuselage was tilted to the left (Ridgway's "Korean War")
Ridgway dodged it, Walker didn't dodge it, the same U.S. Infantry Ninth Army Commander Bryant. Major General Moore, who did not dodge in a helicopter.
In 1951, Ridgway formulated Operation Butcher, the major general was ready to do helicopter command operations, and the plane went wrong, and plunged into the Han River, of course, he was not drowned, but died of a heart attack. (Korea: Our First Defeat)
Murr was commander for only two months, and that was gone, a commander, you said the losses were not big.
Of course, you can say that this is an accident, after all, he is everywhere in this world accident.
But another group of American troops in the Korean War can more clearly reflect the degree of casualties of Americans.
What about that group? The sons of American generals, according to the rule of these people there are about one hundred and forty-two, can not be said to be many.
Of course, you can't feel anything, Xiaobian said a few of their father's names, you know what kind of group this group is.
The second son of Walker, who died in a car accident; Van Vleet, who became commander of the Eighth Army, the son who created the vanVleet ammunition supply; the son of Admiral Clarke, who signed the armistice; the son of Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States, and so on.
And the casualty rate of these people has reached 25%, well, their casualties are so severe, can you think about the days of other ordinary American soldiers? This figure is mentioned by Clark in his From the Danube to the Yalu River.
The guy who created the vanVleet ammunition supply at that time received his son flying a B26 bomber on a mission, and finally made a point where no one was dead or dead, and he was about to become an ant on a hot pot.
It can be said that for the Americans, the Korean War ended up in a bottomless pit, whether it was MacArthur or Ridgway, or even Clark, who later took office, was crying to the US government about a problem, they lacked soldiers.
The U.S. government has reached the point where it has almost no troops to send, and the Americans have mobilized a third of the Army, a half of the Navy, and a fifth of the Air Force.
If more troops are sent, the Americans will issue a national mobilization order, which is obviously impossible, after all, this unjust war is not a declaration of war.
"Crazy?" These three words were not only for the three generals, but also about the Americans themselves.
There is a gap in soldiers, why is there a gap?
Think for yourself, there are more people who die. Therefore, I feel that the number of American deaths is definitely not the number of people they have announced.
After all, the face of the Americans in this war is already black enough, and if a fierce material is broken, the US political situation will not be easy to say.
Of course, there is one more thing to explain here.
The Americans had a shortfall in the number of soldiers, so the Americans hit the South Koreans, who stuffed south Koreans into the U.S. army, and it was said that there were a hundred South Koreans in every infantry company.
According to records, the first troops to supplement the South Koreans were the U.S. Seventh Division of the Eighth Army, which remained in Japan.
Why add a reserve? Quite simply because of this reserve he was constantly replenishing the front of the engagement, such as the Twenty-fourth Division, the Twenty-fifth Division, and the First Cavalry Division.
It is said that some middle school students still carry textbooks with them when they go to Japan, and one of them is actually caught in Japan on the way to catch medicine by his wife, and the prescription is still on his body? Most of them also wear shorts and sandals.
For that matter, you can see that "American Soldiers in Korea".
And the problem of casualties is that among these South Korean reinforcements, the Americans did not count them at all when calculating casualties.
So what is this to tell the big guys?
The death toll of more than 30,000 americans is not credible, and they have stuffed the numbers into these South Koreans who have been stuffed into the U.S. military.
After all, the previous war losses made the Americans unbearable, which led to the idea of replacing them with South Korean soldiers cramming into the U.S. army.
Just over 30,000 war losses can not hurt more than 300,000 U.S. troops, so in many military literature, many people use more than 62,000 casualties (62,423).
As for the injured, this cannot be calculated, after all, the injured people, the wounded can still participate in the battle, so a hundred thousand injured people, you can't explain what the problem is.