Having a war means having prisoners of war, even in the United States after World War II, many of the soldiers who were armed to the teeth were captured alive, and after these American troops were captured, how would their enemies treat them? In order to stop the unification war in Vietnam, the United States launched a war of aggression against Vietnam, although in the frontal battlefield vietnamese and American troops often have to pay several times the human life to be equal to the other, but the two sides of the war will always have soldiers will be captured by the other side, these American troops will be uniformly held together after being captured. An air force soldier who had just joined the Vietnam War was fighting Vietnam over the rainforest when he was shot down by Vietnamese artillery, and the American troops who survived were captured by the Vietnamese army before they could rejoice.
An Air Force captain named Lee Ellis was one of those captured U.S. troops, and he was held in a prison in Vietnam called the Furnace, which, although it was very simple, was more than enough to hold some prisoners of war. When he first came here, he saw other captured American troops, there were several in a prison, looking at the depressed comrades-in-arms, his heart was full of fear, he did not know what was waiting for him, this was where he would live in the future, Yue Jun threw him in, he directly turned away, and those American troops in prison did not show any performance for his arrival. Soon after, a few people were sent from the prison, who replaced his shoes with flip-flops, and brought his first meal of taro after being captured, which was already a very good meal, and only when he first entered the prison was he was eligible to eat a meal. But as an American, Ellis also ate canned and other military food in the war, and in the face of this obviously Asian food, he could not even eat it, but after seeing the food of the people around him, he also knew that only those who had just been captured could eat it, and they did not dare to waste it at the moment, so they ate it clean. After the meal time passed, they returned to prison, waiting for the next Viet Cong to deal with them.
It was a night of trepidation, the unique vietnamese environment made it difficult for them to rest, the mosquito bites combined with the humid air made them miserable, and they were close to collapse before they were abused. Some of the American troops who were wounded on the battlefield were even more miserable, even if they were bandaged, the wounds were still inevitably rotten and inflamed, and the prison was even filled with a foul smell, and he himself was seriously dissatisfied, but fortunately he was not injured. But the good times did not last long, some of his fellow inmates were constantly sick, and the bite of mosquitoes made many people malaria. Everyone in prison is in danger, afraid that the next person to get sick is himself, but this disease is not afraid to avoid, the people around him continue to get sick, and he has been able to persist until now because he first entered prison and his body is still strong, but it is foreseeable that he will inevitably be the next in the near future. Fortunately, the warden here found that most of them were sick and picked out the sick people alone, and as for where they were sent, Ellis did not know, and these healthy people naturally could not just be taken to prison. They were pulled to the open space by the Vietnamese army and used as toys to humiliate them, after all, in their eyes, these high-ranking American troops finally fell into their own hands, which could make them easily save them. As a result, the American prisoners who ate pumpkin cabbage soup every day were pulled out by the Vietnamese army from time to time to walk around and were pulled to clean the toilets in the barracks, let them do what was dirty, what was not done well would be pulled out, fiercely used as a live target, and some people were hung upside down on the trees with ants to put on their bodies, and also took livestock, dragged the prisoners of war in the rice field to soak in water, and even threw some patients into the swamp, and the Vietnamese army watched them desperately survive, and finally continued to sink until they were engulfed by the swamp.
And later in the succession of newcomers, many people can not stand this kind of life, coupled with seeing the surrounding walls low, simple houses, many people have moved the heart to escape, privately will be whispered communication, but even communication is also risky, the Vietnamese army naturally knows that there will be people who want to escape, so this private communication is very important, once discovered, directly a group of people come up and beat, directly hit you unconscious to let go. And that's all right, those American troops who are used to kill chickens and monkeys will be handcuffed and thrown alone in a room that does not see the light of day, and they will never appear again. Since they had been captured, these Americans were naturally very desperate for their lives, so they were invisibly divided into two factions, and the radicals no longer planned to escape at all times, and even used the Morse code for communication, just so that the guards would not find the slightest abnormality. Moreover, in the hearts of some US prisoners, they still look down on these Vietnamese soldiers, especially those used to guard prisons, one by one, they are scattered soldiers and brave, and they have no combat effectiveness at all, so the plot is called a hot fire. But the other group of people think that they are crazy, they are all newcomers, for Vietnam can be said to be two eyes and one black, but it is certain that the jungle outside may even be more dangerous than the prison, and most of the prisons they are in are on the edge of the cliff, if you want to escape, there is a great possibility of direct death on the road, and there are Vietnamese everywhere after going out, at this time they are still wearing flip-flops, with this kind of oblique climbing mountain road, it is not far to run at all, if they are not successfully caught back, What awaits them will be death by abuse. But these people who want to escape don't know this, they certainly know, but instead of passively waiting for death to come, they want to try to escape when they still have the strength and the courage to escape.
After learning about the horrors of the jungle outside, they also began to prepare for it. The first thing to do is the problem of food, since they want to escape, they will certainly not succeed in a day, and they do not know what to eat in the forest, so they must run with food, even if it is only enough to replenish it once, which will greatly increase their chances of survival. But at this time, they eat very little, and it is undoubtedly difficult to save some grain from it, and even when they eat, they will be stalked, how can they steal it? This is the biggest problem. If the usual point is deducted, they all doubt whether they can live to the day when they have saved enough, but the sorrow is useless, the war is your life and death, they know this very well, so they can only use the meal to secretly save some rice grains to place them in the corner of the cell, dry and put them in a box, they are very cautious, and at the same time, they are using the time to secretly observe the situation on the road to prepare for the next escape. But the result is very upset to them, but also for the easy to run where there are more guards, and the place with fewer guards is not something they can walk at all, and they can only decide to take advantage of the negligence of the guards to escape from the normal road, but not everyone has a good attitude, not all of them have enough luck, when storing food, they are found, many people are shackled, even travel is difficult, let alone escape. Before this even began, they were almost stillborn, and the Vietnamese army supplied them with less and less food, and it was becoming more and more difficult to save food. It turned out that at this time, their food was also in short supply, many of the troops on the front line had no food to eat, and they had even less to eat, and some American troops who could unlock the lock secretly hid the nails, hoping to open the chains when they wanted to escape one day.
Finally the opportunity came, many of the Vietnamese troops who had been stationed in prisons were transferred, and the American prisoners finally had to start their own plans, agreeing to act early the next morning. On this day, they secretly opened the cell, touched the place where the weapons were stored, took them and began to race towards the predetermined road, trying to rush into the vast forest before the Vietnamese army could react. But which is so easy, coupled with their partners looking up at the escape in sight, many people directly scattered and fled, forgetting the original planned meeting and location, after all, the disaster is coming to fly separately, but escaping from the prison is still in the control of the Vietnamese army, they are in it, they can not distinguish the direction. Many people are either lost or caught in it, and those American troops who are lucky enough to find the right way do not dare to take the lead when they see the Vietnamese residents, but they are in urgent need of food and have to venture into the living area, hoping to get the pity of the Vietnamese, but the local residents look at their looks, do not say anything and directly move, many people are directly killed. These Americans are also hungry and dizzy, and they actually want their invading countries to sympathize with themselves, and they don't look at how much Vietnamese blood they have on their hands. But among so many people, there are always some lucky people who have not been caught or killed, and they do not know whether they have escaped or lost, but this has also made the prison angry, ordering the captured soldiers to be handcuffed and shackled or directly executed, and the food supply has been directly stopped, and those who have not chosen to escape have also suffered. For several days of starvation, the American prisoners were hungry and red-eyed, and even the bugs and rats that had burrowed into the prison regarded it as delicious, no longer the same look they had when they first arrived, and rumors began to circulate in the prison that there was no longer a food supply, and some of the already sick prisoners could no longer hold on, begging their compatriots to end their lives with stones. Sure enough, soon after, they could not even eat the already meagre amount of food, and the things sent by the Vietnamese army became bugs, and many of the captives could not swallow even if they were hungry in their stomachs.
Seeing this, many people are estimated to be very curious, since there is no food supply, then why not kill it directly? There is no need to send troops to guard them. But we must know that even the countries that participated in the war during World War II must abide by the Geneva Conventions, otherwise Germany would not have built concentration camps to manage the Jews below at the beginning, although with the exposure of the war, it can also be seen that even the war maniac Hitler had to be concerned about international opinions and did not dare to expose the fact that he abused and killed Jews, so Vietnam at this time did not dare, so it was normal to die some people, but if they all died, it would be a serious violation of international humanitarianism. Some countries may directly change from solidarity with Vietnam to turning against the countryside, so that his situation will be more difficult, so even if he is full of hatred, he still tries to ensure the immortality of many people, especially some prisoners, after being caught and tried, the Vietnamese army learns their identity, and it is even more time to plot against them, so that they can speak out for Vietnam in the international community, so as to get more assistance and create more favorable public opinion. It is also possible to demand a ransom from the U.S. military after the war to redeem these prisoners. Many American troops were beaten to death during the interrogation after being captured, and many directly signed confessions in order to ask the Vietnamese army to treat themselves preferentially. Many U.S. troops have accepted the fact and begun to cooperate with Vietnam to shoot some pictures, saying that they are treated preferentially, which also makes many prison compatriots look down on them, and if they do well, they can even make exceptions to smoke cigarettes and even eat fruit, of course, this is only for these good cooperation of the US troops, but even in this state, there are STILL US prisoners who want to pass on some news. A captured pilot, Meiya, in the eight years of detention more than once pretended to cooperate with the film, falsely claimed that he had eye disease, constantly blinked his eyes to send Morse codes to the United States, how at that time the anti-war demonstrations in the United States were very fierce, where there was time to study these videos from Vietnam, until many years later this video was made public, the U.S. military deciphered the information he wanted to convey at that time, but at this time even the yellow broccoli was cold. You must know that at that time, the US military was ready for rescue, after all, those many soldiers were trapped in the enemy camp, if they did not carry out any rescue, it simply contained the hearts of all the US troops, and a lot of preparations were made for this, and a name of Ivory Coast was also given, which can be said to be extremely good hope. However, after some smooth operations, they found that their information was wrong, and the deceived US troops could only return in vain, and if they deciphered the information at that time, at least they could rescue many prisoners of war.
I am really not afraid of god-like opponents, I am afraid of pig-like teammates, and I have wasted a piece of this pilot's painstaking efforts. And those U.S. prisoners with thorny heads did not have such good luck, especially those Vietnamese who wanted to escape, not even the simplest flip-flops were given, and those who did not change were directly broken legs, and some prisoners with higher official positions were dragged out to parade in the streets, and then the prisoners who did not cooperate were directly used on rope. According to the description of the captives who returned later, this criminal law was a nightmare for everyone at that time, they would be bound from behind with their legs and hands, constantly pulled up, the arms would continue to be forced, the ligaments would soon be unbearable and severely painful, many people directly dislocated in the process, and at the end of the punishment, the captives who endured, the arms were like detached from the body, they could only fall to the ground like maggots, slowly waiting for recovery, the process of recovery was like slowly retrieving their limbs, At the same time, there are countless sores that come back. And this kind of criminal law is not only once, as long as they choose not to cooperate, it will continue to proceed, many U.S. prisoners at this time chose to give up their insistence, signed a long-prepared letter of repentance, confessed their crimes of aggression, and once signed, it means that they have defected to Vietnam, even if they return to the United States in the future, this will become a stain to accompany their lives.
Although they were not targeted after returning home, and many were even promoted later, this does not mean that this does not exist. One of the best-developed prisoners of war was even promoted to admiral and elected to national legislature after retiring from the military, but when he spoke with Obama on the same stage in 2008, he could not bear the confession he chose to sign, and was once again lifted by his opponents, and his arm was left with a sick root at that time, and he could no longer lift his shoulder, and he was no longer able to compete with Obama, and could only leave the scene. Among these prisoners of war, except for those who were captured later in the war, almost all the previous prisoners of war signed a letter of repentance, and the prisoners in the back were also given preferential treatment because of the signs of peace talks between the United States and Vietnam in late 1969, when even if the war continued, very few prisoners of war were killed, and these punishments were naturally rarely used, and the prisoners also keenly felt this from the daily food supplied. Sure enough, in 1973, the surviving American prisoners were also repatriated one after another, and the White House also held a special presidential banquet to entertain these American troops who had been tortured by the Vietnamese army many times. This time the dinner party was also written by the American media, and no one has ever paid attention to whether the pain in the hearts of these soldiers can be eliminated after so many years of abuse.
In post-war statistics, the U.S. military lost more than 9,000 various aircraft over the Vietnamese rainforest, directly killed more than 2,000 pilots and crew, and at least 500 were captured. Some media in the United States also took the opportunity to attack Vietnam, saying that it violated humanitarianism and did not abide by the Geneva Conventions, but Vietnam directly fought back at the United States not only without declaring war, but also wantonly killing prisoners of war, these air snitches have brought countless pains to their own country, so being able to repatriate most of the prisoners in the end is already the result of the preferential treatment of the Vietnamese army, which is a battle of extremely unequal strength, and the US military also wants to end this battle in a short period of time. But the fact is that under the stubborn resistance of the Vietnamese army, the United States was completely pulled into the quagmire of war, and countless American youths either voluntarily or conscripted across Haiti to the Vietnamese battlefield, threw their lives into this unjust war, and then announced the atrocities of the US army, and many bodies of the Vietnamese troops who were brutally killed and even tortured into inhuman form were thrown into the pit at will. After the reunification of Vietnam, many such hundred people were found, and they were not regarded as adults at all, especially those female prisoners of war, who were wantonly ravaged by the US military and finally brutally killed. In order to get some information, they also deliberately used the next three drugs to inject female prisoners, making them lose control of their emotions, and they took the opportunity to ask for the information they wanted, and some of the surviving female soldiers fell behind for a lifetime. The U.S. military will even take the lives of these people for fun in peacetime, put many ants on them, make people's blood be continuously sucked dry, and coat their feet with honey, and be constantly licked by animals, making them laugh uncontrollably until they die. Later, some U.S. troops also admitted that in order to capture the Vietnamese army, many civilians were beaten into a confession, and even shot them directly as enemies. Compared with Vietnam, their means can almost be said to be comparable.
After such incriminating evidence reached the United States, those media no longer dared to flaunt it in the name of humanitarianism. Without the obstruction of the United States, Vietnam quickly completed its reunification, but this battle that should have ended in a short period of time, but because of the participation of the United States to fight a long-term war for a full 20 years, more than 5 million Vietnamese civilians died, although the country was unified, but the long-term war caused the country's economy to collapse, and countless Vietnamese refugees chose to flee the country, and the price paid was not small. Later, Ellis, who retired as a colonel, also visited Vietnam again, and when he saw the photos in prison at that time, he also scorned those who cooperated with Vietnam to shoot propaganda films, directly calling them traitors, which shows that he did not realize that the war he participated in was unjust, which is also a common disease of many AMERICAN troops, even after returning home, he only blamed his own torture on Vietnam, without considering how he could be captured if he did not participate in the war. Many people even assumed a hawkish posture after entering politics in the later period, without the slightest remorse.
In 2006, the American director also made a film based on true events called "Seeing the Sky Again". The protagonist of the play escaped from Ikuta after being captured, but it only describes how brutal the Vietnamese army is, and hardly mentions the fact of its own aggression, I can't believe how the Americans made this movie that whitewashes the US army, is it difficult to blame the Vietnamese for not treating the prisoners preferentially when their palms are stained with Vietnamese blood? War is the disaster of mankind, countless people oppose war, but constantly launch war, these American prisoners are abused and mentally ravaged, more because the politicians behind the war for their own interests to personally send their own country's youth to the battlefield one by one, they should blame those who advocate or even start war.