The real casualties of Changjin Lake Marine 1 Division.
1st Marine Division 1 Killed: 7 18, 192 missing, 3504 injured. Coupled with frostbite and non-combat attrition, 7 thousand people were injured. The number of his teachers can reach 19 thousand.
The US 3 1 Infantry Regiment of the Polar Bear Regiment fought with a battalion and a Korean auxiliary battalion in Changjin Lake, but its head and regiment headquarters were destroyed here. The number of participants in this group is about 3000 or more. After casualties and frostbite, 385 people have the fighting capacity to break through with the wounded. Because the regiment headquarters was destroyed, the head and deputy head were all dead.
After the US 7th Division retreated from Changjin Lake, it was sent to Busan for rectification and soon returned to the front. In the later Battle of Shangganling, the first troops to attack were 1 Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of this polar bear regiment.
How many people were lost in the real casualties of the First Marine Division in Changjin Lake?
The tragic battle of Changjin Lake, the war history record of the First Marine Division: 604 people died, 192 people were missing and 3503 people were injured in this battle. In a regiment-level battle, only 796 people were killed in the 24,000-person First Marine Division, and they ran away like a lost dog 100 kilometers to the sea, which was incredible. When checking the data recently, it was found that the First Marine Division seriously concealed the number of casualties, and the actual death toll should be about five times that of the record.
The 1st Marine Division of Changjin Lake failed.
1950165438+1On October 27th, the 80th Division of the 27th Army of the Volunteers surrounded the 3 1 regiment of the 7th Division of the US Army. Brigadier General Hurst, deputy commander of the 7th Division, hurried to ask Smith, commander of the 1st 1 Division of the Marine Corps for help. On the phone, he cried: 3 1 group lost nearly 400 people a day, and now it has been surrounded. But Smith doesn't have a battalion. After thinking about it, he thought of more than 200 British marines assigned to the First Marine Division. They only ate and didn't work.
After World War II, Britain, as a victorious country, also enjoyed the right to station troops in Japan, but at this time, Britain's economy was struggling, so it only symbolically stationed a "Royal Marine Corps No.465438 +0 Independent Combat Team" in Yokosuga in the name of the Commonwealth. This is symbolic, because * * * only has 235 people, including Commander Lieutenant Colonel Drysdale.
Shortly thereafter, MacArthur put this independent combat team under the command of vice admiral Joey in the Far East. After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Drysdale, who had been idle for several years, told Joey that he was really embarrassed to be idle in the rear when he saw the heat ahead. Joey followed closely and assigned them to the first division of the Marine Corps. Mr. Smith didn't object either, but raised more than 200 people.
Now, Mr. Smith thinks of them. We can't just eat without working. Although there are few people, we can strengthen them temporarily. Smith reinforced the G company, 3 1 battalion B company and division battalion company of 3rd battalion of 7th Infantry Division for Drisdale, and sent him three tank platoons, with a total of 17 tanks and1truck, with 922 people.
Smith saw that the British weapon was shabby, so he changed it into an American weapon. This pieced together a battalion of troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Drysdale, the highest rank. In Smith's mind, everyone is a marine corps, and the level should not be too bad. However, the latter thing made Smith regret it.
This temporarily strengthened unit is called "Drysdale Task Force". At 9: 45 in the morning, they set out from the ancient soil. Gutuli is only 30 kilometers away from Li Xinxing Highway where 3 1 League is located. However, just after walking 2 kilometers, the task force was stopped by volunteers. Soldiers of the 60th Division of the 20th Army of the Volunteers nailed the task force in place with several heavy machine guns and mortars.
Drysdale felt that the volunteers' firepower was not strong, so he decided to mix tanks and cars and rushed at full speed. Hearing this idea, the platoon leader of the tank platoon understood that the officers knew all about tank operations-nothing. He spent almost an hour popularizing the basic knowledge of armored combat for Drysdale, and suggested that he seek help from the No.1 1 Marine Corps.
Drysdale did so. It was already one o'clock at noon. After receiving the call, the head of the 1 regiment of the Marine Corps had to send 12 tank support. After the tanks arrived, Drysdale rearranged its troops: 17 tanks took the lead, followed by 4 1 combat team, followed by Marine 1 Division G Company, Division Command Company and 7th Division B Company, followed by 12 tanks.
When all this was done, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon and it was getting dark. The task force was blocked for more than six hours. Tank platoon leader once again reminded Drysdale that this arrangement of tanks should be able to rush past, but the car is in danger. As long as a few cars are damaged, they may all fail.
Volunteers killed 162 people, wounded 159 people, captured 237 people, destroyed 74 tanks and cars, and seized 20 guns. Drysdale rushed out of the valley with only 364 people and rushed to Xiajieyu. He excitedly reported to Smith that after a short rest, his men could continue to set out for Li Xinxing to rescue the 3 1 regiment surrounded by the first regiment.
Smith was so angry that he tried to suppress his anger and reminded Drysdale: How many people do you have left? Until now, Drysdale discovered that he had lost more than half of his staff. He didn't know what he had experienced in the valley, and he couldn't turn back when he ran back in one breath. Mr. Smith regretted losing a shipping company and an agency in vain, especially an agency, where more than half of the officers were there.
Evaluation of Changjin Lake Campaign
The significance and position of the battle of Changjin Lake is very important for the whole Korean War, and its influence is far-reaching. Later generations have different opinions on the battle of Changjin Lake. Undeniably, in the battle of Changjin Lake, China Volunteers began to reverse the direction of the whole war.
After the battle of Changjin Lake, the volunteers recovered the entire eastern part of the Korean Peninsula north of the 38th parallel. Since then, the United Nations army has never set foot on the 38th parallel again, completely containing the American troops west of the 38th parallel. Mao Zedong's evaluation of the battle of Changjin Lake was a great strategic task under extremely difficult conditions. Similarly, in this campaign, a series of shortcomings such as insufficient supply and firepower of the volunteers were exposed, and the disparity in equipment between the volunteers and the US military was also seen.
After the successful withdrawal of the United Nations troops led by the United States in the Battle of Changjin Lake, it was also highly appreciated and evaluated. They are considered to have dealt a serious blow to the morale and combat effectiveness of the People's Volunteers, forced the main combat corps of the China Volunteers to withdraw from the front line, and laid the confidence of the US military in continuing the Korean War. Although there is great frustration in military strategy, the United States has great confidence in military strength.
People have different opinions on the battle of Changjin Lake, and their evaluations are generally different. However, as far as the overall war trend is concerned, the battle of Changjin Lake reversed the situation of the entire Korean battlefield in the whole strategic sense. China Volunteers forced the US military to retreat beyond the 38th parallel, changing from strategic attack to strategic defense. At the same time, China's army also paid a heavy price, and the divisions gradually withdrew from the front.
Casualties of both sides in the battle of Changjin Lake
Our army suffered more than 23,000 casualties in the battle of Changjin Lake. The losses of American and British troops exceeded 19000.
The battle of Changjin Lake took place on the eastern front near the 38th parallel at that time. At that time, Pyongyang, the capital of the North Korean army, had been captured, and the border of the North Korean interim government was also suppressed by the US military. It can be said that the whole South Korea is already in do or die. Faced with this situation, the ninth corps of volunteers was urgently transferred to the eastern front of the US-DPRK war.
After the Ninth Corps entered Korea, our army took the tactics of attacking the flank of the American army, breaking it up and disrupting it, and then dividing and encircling it. In order to meet the tactical requirements, our army often stays motionless in the snow for a long time. At that time, our army entered the DPRK in an emergency, and the clothing problem was not properly solved. In addition, the temperature in the northern part of North Korea is extremely cold, and it is common to reach MINUS 20 or 30 degrees. Therefore, in this battle, a large number of volunteers were frozen to death by frostbite.
The plight of the volunteers reached its peak in the battle of Changjin Lake. On June 27th, 1950, 165438+ the elite of our army joined forces in Changjin Lake area, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle. At that time, the US Army Marine Corps 1 Division and two infantry divisions participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake. If the South Korean First Army, which has been stationed here, is added, the number of allied troops led by the United States will reach 65,438+10,000. As for our army, the 20th, 26th and 27th armies of the Ninth Corps of Volunteers participated in battlefield battles, with the number reaching 1.5 million.
After the battle of Changjin Lake began, our army still adopted the tactics of flank attack and dividing troops for a month. A large number of volunteers crouched in the snow and launched a surprise attack in the middle of the US military March. Due to the lack of warm clothes, frostbitten volunteers account for one-fifth of the whole army. Of the 6.5438+0.5 million people, at least tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness or froze to death because of the cold. The "Ice Sculpture Company" recorded in military history was born in the Battle of Changjin Lake.
Under the attack of the volunteers, the heavy weapons of the American army could not be used, and the whole army was divided into several parts and was besieged and intercepted by the volunteers. In the face of the crazy offensive of the volunteers, the US military decided to withdraw south. Therefore, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which lasted for a month, went to the battle of Changjin Lake and became a siege and annihilation war.
After that, our army blocked the American troops layer by layer, but because of the front problems, the resistance of the American troops to retreat to the south became smaller and smaller. Finally, the U.S. military fled northeast Korea by boat under the cover of seven aircraft carriers. According to postwar statistics, more than 20,000 Americans were killed, 1 10,000 Koreans were killed, and10.9 million our troops were killed. In addition to the soldiers who died in battle, 4000 people died of the cold. So our army suffered more than 23,000 casualties.
According to American figures, there were more than 6,800 American combat casualties and 65,438+3,000 non-combat casualties in the Battle of Changjin Lake, including 4,433 combat casualties in 1 marine division, 73 non-combat casualties in13, 2,200 combat casualties in the 7th infantry division, more than 4,000 non-combat casualties and about 500 British casualties.
Changjin Lake is full of ice and snow.
The battle of Changjin Lake is of great significance in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Under extremely asymmetrical and difficult conditions, Chinese people's Volunteer Army defeated "more steel and less gas" with "more steel and less gas", which created a record of wiping out a regiment of the US military in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, broke the myth that the US military was invincible, and was a classic example of defeating the strong with the weak in modern warfare.
The "strength" of the battle of Changjin Lake does not refer to the number of people, but the disparity in weapons and equipment and combat power. For example, the 27th Army, one of the main volunteers who participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake, had only 45 vehicles when it entered the DPRK. Due to the cold weather, the gun bore contracted, the shells could not be fired, grenades became "heavy weapons", and there was a serious shortage of warm clothes.
They are facing the US Marine Corps 1 Division, which is called "the trump card in the trump card". Since the establishment of 194 1, the division has never suffered defeat after the battles of Guadalcanal and Okinawa.
In the battle of Changjin Lake, the US military had seven aircraft carriers, 500 carrier-based aircraft, and countless heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery. In this contrast, the volunteers did not fear and fight. They fought the cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius with flesh and blood, attacked the enemy's "iron drum array" with rifles and machine guns, and finally defeated the enemy and reversed the battlefield situation.
How many casualties did the First Marine Division suffer in the "Battle of Changjin Lake" in the Korean War?
This is the second battle.
The Marine/KOOC-0/Division landed on Yanshan Mountain on/KOOC-0/October 26th/KOOC-0/5th, and by the end of the campaign on February 65438+/KOOC-0/5th, 765438 people were killed, 92 people were missing/KOOC-0, and 3504 people were injured.
How many volunteers died? China has always been an unsung hero, who cares so much, but the Ninth Corps did not participate in the next battle until March 5 1. As you can imagine, the casualties of this huge corps are extremely huge.
Up to now, even the South Korean government has not figured out how many people died in China during the Korean War. Now it is said to be 654.38+0.8 million, which is close to the actual data, so this data is also fooling the people.
Nearly a thousand people were killed in a battle, which is already a very heavy casualty for the United States, but according to the standard of military casualties in China, this figure is simply a negligible loss.
The 1st Marine Division, also called Guada Cadal Division, was an army composed of all volunteers in the US Army at that time. Although more than two thirds of them are recruits, this is a professional army with a strong sense of occupation.
China's army never cut off the supplies of the 1st Marine Division. Although the land passage was cut off by China's 100,000 troops, the supply from the air was endless, and with the help of air superiority, the First Marine Division opened up a retreat. This battle is really a great shock to the government of China. Since then, the China Volunteers have given up the unrealistic idea that it is not enough to deal with or even exceed five times the strength of the US military.
Seek information on casualties between China and the United States in World War I in Changjin Lake.
1950, 165438+ 10, a battle to change the historical process was launched here by two ace troops of China and the United States. At that time, the first battle of the volunteers had just ended. Although the "United Nations Army" was confronted by volunteers, it still thought that China was a "symbolic invasion" and "not an unrepentant force". So he quickly gathered all the troops that invaded Korea and launched the "general offensive to end the Korean War" in an attempt to drive the volunteers out of the Yalu River, occupy the whole territory of Korea, and end the Korean War before1February 25th.
3 1 task force in Li Xinxing and Houpu area has a total of 3,200 people, and about 1600 people broke through to reach the lower bound valley * *, of which 1 150 people were evacuated by plane, and 490 uninjured officers and men were converted into temporary barracks to follow the land war. The U.S. military was actually wiped out in the emerging world, which is a certain distance from the annihilation of a U.S. military formation mentioned in the history of volunteer war.
The U.S. Marine Corps/KOOC-0/Division has an establishment of about 25,000 people. At that time, there were three Marine Infantry Regiments,/KOOC-0/Marine Artillery Regiment,/KOOC-0/Tank Battalion,/KOOC-0/Engineering Battalion and other directly affiliated units, while/KOOC-0/Coastal Battalion and/KOOC-0/Amphibious.
The number of 1 marine division who finally boarded the ship from Nanxing Port was 222 15, and about 1000 seriously injured people were directly airlifted to Japan, which means that about 2,000 people in Changjin Lake 1 marine division were completely annihilated.
According to the data released by the US military after the war, the casualties of the marine 1 division are as follows: 604 people were killed, 1 14 people were seriously injured, and 192 people were missing. In addition, eight Marine Corps pilots were killed, four were missing and three were injured. The entire marine corps suffered 4433 combat casualties.
The data later revised by the US military: 2,670 people were killed or injured in the battle of the 7th division, and the death or injury in the battle of Katusa under the 7th division 1602 people. Including the casualties of the 3rd Division, the Korean Capital Division and the Turkish Brigade, the casualties of the Second Battle of the Eastern Front 10 Army reached 10495. This 10000 people is still a battle casualty of 10 army. If we calculate the number of non-combat casualties during this period, 1 marine division has 7338 people.
Casualty data of China people: According to "Summary of Health Work to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" on page 327 of Health Department of General Logistics Department of China People's Liberation Army (1, March, 0988), there were a total of 52,098 war wounded14,062, 30,732 frostbite wounded, and 7,304 battle deaths.
The battle of Changjin Lake had a far-reaching impact on the whole Korean War. The Ninth Corps of the Volunteers recovered the vast eastern area north of the 38th parallel, completely expelled the Americans from the Yuanshan Plain in eastern Korea, and scored points in the strategic situation. However, this war also exposed the inherent weaknesses of the agricultural national army, such as insufficient logistics, poor communication, and insufficient firepower. In the face of the air superiority of the US military, there is a great gap between the equipment and the US military. The thrilling escape of the US Marine Corps 1 Division also greatly increased the confidence of the top military and political officials in the United States, and finally strengthened their determination to continue the Korean War.
Real casualties in the battle of Changjin Lake
Our army suffered more than 23,000 casualties in the battle of Changjin Lake. The losses of American and British troops exceeded 19000.
The battle of Changjin Lake took place on the eastern front near the 38th parallel at that time. At that time, Pyongyang, the capital of the North Korean army, had been captured, and the border of the North Korean interim government was also suppressed by the US military. It can be said that the whole South Korea is already in do or die. Faced with this situation, the ninth corps of volunteers was urgently transferred to the eastern front of the US-DPRK war.
After the Ninth Corps entered Korea, our army took the tactics of attacking the flank of the American army, breaking it up and disrupting it, and then dividing and encircling it. In order to meet the tactical requirements, our army often lies motionless in the snow for a long time.
At that time, our army entered the DPRK in an emergency, and the clothing problem was not properly solved. In addition, the temperature in the northern part of North Korea is extremely cold, and it is common to reach MINUS 20 or 30 degrees. Therefore, in this battle, a large number of volunteers were frozen to death by frostbite.
The plight of the volunteers reached its peak in the battle of Changjin Lake. On June 27th, 1950, 165438+ the elite of our army joined forces in Changjin Lake area, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle.
At that time, the US Army Marine Corps 1 Division and two infantry divisions participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake. If the South Korean First Army, which has been stationed here, is added, the number of allied troops led by the United States will reach 65,438+10,000. As for our army, the 20th, 26th and 27th armies of the Ninth Corps of Volunteers participated in battlefield battles, with the number reaching 1.5 million.
After the battle of Changjin Lake began, our army still adopted the tactics of flank attack and dividing troops for a month. A large number of volunteers crouched in the snow and launched a surprise attack on the US military in the middle of the March.
Due to the lack of warm clothes, frostbitten volunteers account for one-fifth of the whole army. Of the 6.5438+0.5 million people, at least tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness or froze to death because of the cold. The "Ice Sculpture Company" recorded in military history was born in the Battle of Changjin Lake.
Under the attack of the volunteers, the heavy weapons of the American army could not be used, and the whole army was divided into several parts and was besieged and intercepted by the volunteers. In the face of the crazy offensive of the volunteers, the US military decided to withdraw south. Therefore, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which lasted for a month, went to the battle of Changjin Lake and became a siege and annihilation war.
After that, our army blocked the American troops layer by layer, but because of the front problems, the resistance of the American troops to retreat to the south became smaller and smaller. Finally, the U.S. military fled northeast Korea by boat under the cover of seven aircraft carriers.
According to postwar statistics, more than 20,000 Americans were killed, 1 10,000 Koreans were killed, and10.9 million our troops were killed. In addition to the soldiers who died in battle, 4000 people died of the cold. So our army suffered more than 23,000 casualties.
According to American figures, there were more than 6,800 American combat casualties and 65,438+3,000 non-combat casualties in the Battle of Changjin Lake, including 4,433 combat casualties in 1 marine division, 73 non-combat casualties in13, 2,200 combat casualties in the 7th infantry division, more than 4,000 non-combat casualties and about 500 British casualties.
It is understood that after the volunteers entered the DPRK, they mainly encountered three difficulties: first, poor weapons and equipment and lack of ammunition; There is also the problem of eating, especially the difficulty in supplying hot food; In addition, the tight winter clothes have caused a large number of non-combat attrition.
"Most of the soldiers of the 9 th Corps come from the south and don't know much about the weather in the north." Zhang Xiaoying said that the Changjin Lake area is the most bitter and coldest area in North Korea, with an altitude of 1000 to 2,000 meters, dense forests, narrow roads, few people and low temperature at night. In the temperate zone of East China, all volunteer soldiers wear winter clothes.
The Ninth Corps originally planned to rest and change clothes in Liaoyang and Shenyang. However, due to the urgent situation in North Korea, when the train entered Shanhaiguan, the former General Staff Department sent senior staff officers to stop the train and read out the order of the Central Military Commission to "enter the DPRK urgently". More than a dozen trains only stopped in Shenyang for a while and then continued to rush in.
Most of the soldiers of the Ninth Corps wore top hats, rubber shoes and thin cotton-padded clothes to enter the Changjin Lake area, resulting in large-scale frostbite and attrition in the ice and snow.
She went on to say that no one expected that the winter of 1950 was the extremely cold weather in North Korea for 50 years. It can reach MINUS 30 degrees Celsius at night, and sometimes even MINUS 40 degrees Celsius.