Korean War took three years, and the war was fought and stopped. So how many casualties did the US military suffer during the three years of the Korean War? This number was originally not complicated to count, but it was mixed with political, diplomatic and other factors, and this issue became true and false, and there was no accurate data.
Number of casualties in the war When the countries announced, they will more or less conceal their own casualties and exaggerate the number of casualties from the enemy.
, especially the Korean War, the United States did not win this war, and there was no way to explain to the domestic people. There were many countries participating in this war, and it was objectively difficult to count the number of casualties itself. The US government was even more fussy, and it was very likely to conceal and underreport the number of casualties.
After the Korean War ceasefire, our side released more than 1.09 million enemies, of which the number of casualties of the US military was more than 390,000. However, the figures released by UN Army are far from the figures released by us. The figures released by the UN Army are: the total number of casualties of the coalition and the National Army is more than 1.47 million, of which the number of casualties of South Korean soldiers is more than 1.31 million, the number of casualties of the US soldiers is more than 140,000, and the number of casualties of the military in other countries of the UN Army is more than 17,000. From this data comparison, we can find that the total number of casualties released by the United Nations military is more than 380,000 more than those announced by our side, but the number of casualties of the US military is more than 250,000 less, and the number of casualties of the South Korean military is even less than 610,000.
Later, South Korea also made official statistics, which is far from the figures released by the United Nations military represented by the United States. The statistics from South Korea are: the total number of casualties of the United Nations and South Korean troops is more than 1.16 million, of which the total number of casualties of the South Korean soldiers is more than 988,000, and the total number of casualties, including the United States, is basically the same as the number of casualties announced by the United Nations Army represented by the United States, but the total number of casualties is still huge. It can be seen that the published numbers are quite different on the same side of the war. It is conceivable that the moisture and authenticity of this number are somewhat credible.
Later, Chen Geng also said in a public occasion after the war that the number of casualties in the US military was more than 300,000, which is twice as high as the number announced by the US. The domestic media in the United States also did not recognize the casualty data released by the United States. Since 1951, the US military officially announced that the enemy lost 30 divisions within 10 days of the US military occupying Seoul . The US media does not recognize this data and believes that since the data on the number of enemies' war losses is so inaccurate, the US official announcement of the number of casualties in the United States is also very humble, and joked that MacArthur General is not a combat genius, but a bragging king.
Until the United States established the Korean War Memorial Park, the number of casualties and missing persons in the United States was also far from the statistics of casualties on the Korean War Memorial Wall.
A war is not as difficult as counting the number of deaths and missing people in a battle. The total number of people participating in the war is counted before joining the war, including soldiers returning to China after their service period, which can also be clearly counted. Excluding the situation of casualties going to the battlefield again, the number of other deaths and missing people can basically be determined.
The Volunteer Army’s strict discipline is not allowed to falsely report military achievements. The statistical data within the United States is so large that it shows that the authenticity of the US data is not high, But then why did the United States reduce the number of casualties? What is the real casualties in the United States?
For the subsidies given to the military by the United States, the United States encourages people to join the army to participate in foreign wars, and the subsidies to the families of the fallen soldiers are also extremely high. In this way, the standards for casualties in the United States are extremely high, so they are inconsistent with the Chinese statistics. They do not belong to the missing persons, but in fact, there are very few missing soldiers in the war.
Otherwise, the reason is that the US military incorporated a large number of Korean soldiers. In the first year of the war, the United States suffered heavy casualties, reaching the point where there was no soldiers to be sent. So, in consultation with South Korea, the infantry company of the US military was organized into Korean soldiers, requiring each infantry company to be organized into 100 Koreans, and the US military was organized, with about 190 people per infantry company. In other words, more than half of the people fighting with the Volunteer Army were Koreans later.
The first time this plan was implemented, the US military added more than 8,000 Korean soldiers. Although the Koreans were supplemented with the US military, the Korean soldiers were not treated the same as American soldiers in the US military. South Korean soldiers were acted as cannon fodder on the battlefield, and most of the Koreans who were supplemented with the US military were not real soldiers, but the civilians captured by South Korean Prime Minister Lee Seung-man in order to achieve victory in the war.
Later, according to relevant people, Koreans who went to participate in training were wearing vests and slippers, and some of them were also caught in the army on their way home with suppers bought from the street or medicines bought for their families.
According to information, the US military has supplemented Koreans five times, each time with more than 8,000 people. The death of Koreans in the US military does not include casualties in the US soldiers. It is believed that it is mercenary , so the statistical caliber in this aspect is not consistent.
According to statistics, the total number of casualties among the US military from South Korea is more than 32,000. According to the personnel ratio of the US military and local American soldiers, the number of deaths from South Korea is probably the number of deaths from the US military.
This is also a conservative estimate, because the Korean American military and the American military have a great difference, because first of all, the American military will rotate every time. Regardless of whether they are injured or not, they can withdraw from the battlefield after their service period. However, the Korean American military does not have this treatment. The Korean American military does not have a service period and must continue to participate in the battle until the end of the war.
Korean American military was the vanguard of war, so Korean American military also trained harder and had more experience in the battlefield than American American military. By the end of the war, the most powerful combat technology among the US military was the Korean American military, so the actual number of casualties in the US military was more than that of the Korean American military.
In order to reduce the number of casualties during statistics, the United States defined many soldiers who died of frozen deaths on the battlefield as non-combat reduction. It can also be seen from the high proportion of American soldiers' disappearance rates on the battlefield that the United States defines soldiers who have not had time to recover their bodies on the battlefield as missing soldiers.
It can be seen whether it is the statistical caliber of the United States or the statistical caliber of the Volunteer Army that the US military suffered heavy casualties in the three years of participating in the Korean War. The tragedy of this war has brought profound and indelible war to the American people, so the American people also hate war very much.
The number of casualties in the war has become an important reference indicator for whether the United States can launch a war or participate in a war. For wars like the Korean War, which hurt the enemy by one thousand and hurt themselves by eight hundred, is extremely unworthy.
Judging from the Korean War, China also suffered a lot of casualties, but the domestic people still supported it, and the final result was also victorious, and it was exchanged for 50 years of opportunities for peaceful development.
