Death Miscount Etched Into History By Steve Vogel June 25, 2000
President Clinton and veterans from across the nation will gather in somber remembrance this afternoon at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, where it is carved into stone that 54,246 Americans died in the war that began 50 years ago today.
For decades, the number has been enshrined in almanacs, histories, memories and monuments, cited as proof of the war's cost. But nearly one-third of those deaths--17,730--occurred elsewhere, often half a world away from Korea, in places ranging from the United States to Germany. The actual number of Americans killed in the Korean War theater of operations is 36,516, the Pentagon acknowledged this month.
"If you were walking down the street in Washington, D.C., and were hit by a car, you'd be considered a casualty of the Korean War," said Burt Hagelin, a Korean War veteran who helped uncover the mystery.
The error was blamed on an anonymous government clerk who in the 1950s mistakenly added all noncombat deaths worldwide to the total, and the correction was credited to revised reporting procedures, according to news accounts reporting the Pentagon's clarification. That is not the real story, according to veterans and others who have pushed for years to correct the number.
"Fifty years later, they're trying to drop it all on one clerk," said Richard Kolb, publisher of VFW Magazine, a Veterans of Foreign Wars publication that several times has urged the number be corrected. "They had the facts all along. Now they're acting like it's a new revelation."
Some Pentagon officials have for years considered the 54,000 figure inflated, and they believed before the memorial was dedicated in 1995 that engraving that number in black granite would be misleading, according to interviews. But at the insistence of the veterans committee that oversaw the memorial's construction, the figure was used.
President Clinton and veterans from across the nation will gather in somber remembrance this afternoon at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, where it is carved into stone that 54,246 Americans died in the war that began 50 years ago today.
For decades, the number has been enshrined in almanacs, histories, memories and monuments, cited as proof of the war's cost. But nearly one-third of those deaths--17,730--occurred elsewhere, often half a world away from Korea, in places ranging from the United States to Germany. The actual number of Americans killed in the Korean War theater of operations is 36,516, the Pentagon acknowledged this month.
"If you were walking down the street in Washington, D.C., and were hit by a car, you'd be considered a casualty of the Korean War," said Burt Hagelin, a Korean War veteran who helped uncover the mystery.
The error was blamed on an anonymous government clerk who in the 1950s mistakenly added all noncombat deaths worldwide to the total, and the correction was credited to revised reporting procedures, according to news accounts reporting the Pentagon's clarification. That is not the real story, according to veterans and others who have pushed for years to correct the number.
"Fifty years later, they're trying to drop it all on one clerk," said Richard Kolb, publisher of VFW Magazine, a Veterans of Foreign Wars publication that several times has urged the number be corrected. "They had the facts all along. Now they're acting like it's a new revelation."
Some Pentagon officials have for years considered the 54,000 figure inflated, and they believed before the memorial was dedicated in 1995 that engraving that number in black granite would be misleading, according to interviews. But at the insistence of the veterans committee that oversaw the memorial's construction, the figure was used.
其中包含了3844海军士兵。阁下不会真的认为志愿军跑到海上去消灭美军吧?
假设碑上的数据是正确的,志愿军的数据呢?
即使你胡说八道我也不和你争。
战争纪念碑数据有误为啥不纠正?
那个楼主在文学城撒谎撒野已经被封了20个马甲。
现在还有自驾走天涯,板凳球迷等10个马甲。
背后都在push停战。大家都知道国内老百姓受不了了
印象中朝鲜战争在朝志愿军没有超过120万,能造成尽250万联军伤亡是不可思议的。
和你的伪史料比比,写一篇感想
休怪我骂你。
朝鲜战争的美中日韩书籍读了10本以上,其它资料性的文献读了很多。
你连一本中国人民解放军战史都没看过吧?5卷,连各种级别战斗都有,军科院出的,看完以后
来源: laomian123 于 2019-03-26 09:03:33 [档案] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读: 7 次 (53 bytes) 字体:调大/重置/调小 | 加入书签 | 打印 | 所有跟帖 | 加跟贴 | 当前最热讨论主题 回答: 你若真是女的,我就让你。 由 老生常谈12 于 2019-03-26 08:57:41和你的伪史料比比,写一篇感想
36. 二战美军伤亡人数
内战开始时,共军120万,能歼灭800万国军,你能理解吗?
累计/累积歼灭。
志愿军先后有230万人入朝轮战,同时在朝鲜的最高兵力大概百万人,是在战争后期时。
美军陆军18个师中的7个半师入朝作战,空军的50%参过战,海军的70%参过战。
比如兴南港大撤退就撤退了10万美军和10万平民,这就是海军参入的,当然仁川登陆也是海军参入的。
可惜从这些牵强附会乱七八糟的马甲大集合,就可以理解你为何喜欢编篡军史。
你就像灭一只苍蝇,所以你被封了20多个马甲。
只要你继续满嘴污秽,语言恶毒,挑起网斗,立即就封了你。
• 看来阁下不仅不懂尊重女性,人品也差,喜欢搜集黑材料。 - 硅谷一水滴 - (116 bytes) (2 reads) 03/26/2019 09:38:10
当时掩护的是陆战一师,撤退的主力是步兵3,7师和韩国第一军。
还120万解放军消灭800万国民党,林彪东野入关就百万了..
林彪出关时11万部队3年在东北累积歼灭国军105万人,东野发展成103万人。75万—83万人先后入关,剩下的20多万人成立东北军区。
1948年辽沈战役时,东野有103万—105万人。
辽沈战役后,共军变成320万人,国军变成280万人,数量翻转。
鉴于你的赌气态度这个问题不再讨论。
1945年日本投降后,共军120万人,而且不是正规军,国军430万人,其中正规军近400万人。在这个兵力对比下开战,彼消此长,累计歼灭国军800万人。共军发展到了550万人,而国军仅仅50余万人撤退到台湾。
这里的重点是说累计,累积的效应。明白了这个,就明白联合国军伤亡242.9万人,其中主要是南韩军人伤亡,因为南韩军人不知道为谁打仗,愿意打仗,所以,一触即溃。
时间起点南昌起义:兵力一万六,到1949年歼日伪国军共计超千万,比你的120万共军消灭800万国军更过瘾。有实际意义么?
水平太LOW了,以后别跟我贴了。
你可以自己发原创帖,或者转贴高质量的贴。
活了一把年纪还这个德性,时间点是你定的只能1945年开始算? 没有南昌起义你二次土地革命的120共军是石头里蹦出来的?
娘的找抽?
你什么德行?
你非得骂人把老子惹急了
你知道昨天那个孙子怎么被封了20多个马甲,对吧?!
哈哈