From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 19:07:01 PST
Everette,
This might help, its from a book BATTLE CASUALTIES AND
MEDICAL STATISTICS
U.S. Army Experience in the Korea War
By
FRANK A. REISTER
THE SURGEON GENERAL
Department of the Army
Washington, D.C.
Table 4.- Annual rates for killed in action and
admissions to medical treatment facilities, U.S. Army,
Korea, July 1950-July 1953
http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/korea/reister/ch1.htm#tab4
--- G Shaw <milspectruck@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Everette
> I don't know where they are getting all this stuff.
> It doesn't sound like
> the same war where my Uncle Bill was in the Pacific
> on Bouganville, Tarawa
> and some other toilets in the Pacific with the US
> Army, or the European
> campaign where my cousin Fritz was. Of course the
> fact that he was with the
> German Army may have had some impact on the stats,
> not to mention that he
> was on the Eastern front and was in active combat
> long before D-Day and all
> the way until the fall of Berlin as the lines moved
> back west. I do know
> from their first hand stories was that a lot of guys
> went through hell for a
> long time on both sides. Not 40 days. Both Bill
> and Fritz have said they
> really treasured any time they got on R&R.
>
> I think that they must include all the Rear Area
> support guys in the
> percentage. For every combat infantryman it takes X
> number of rear area
> support personnel. Yet these men and women are all
> part of the campaign.
> Accountants have a way of making figures tell
> whatever they want. Mark
> Twains comment comes to mind :) Front line units
> pretty much were in the
> shit most of the time as they fought and walked
> across Europe in the
> campaign. If you were front line infantry on either
> side you were in combat
> constantly except for the rare R&R. Both Bill and
> Fritz survived the war
> but I thinlk the "greatest generation" is very
> fitting when you think about
> what the world went through 1939-1945. They should
> not publish things that
> seem to diminish the extreme sacrifice these
> soldiers made, which is how I
> would take what the History Channel does with this.
> I wish todays media
> would stop trying to revise history.
>
> Glenn
>
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>
>
> I think perhaps I watch history channel too much...
> I was watching program
> on helicopters, and "talking head" said average GI
> in WWII spent less than
> 40 days a year in combat, compared to Vietnam's 240
> days per year and
> "talking head" said that a lot of this could be
> attributed to helicopter.
>
> Helicopter was able to get troops from rear to
> front quicker, I disagree,
> in Vietnam there was no "front line" if you were "in
> country" you were "in
> combat", rear area was Guam or Japan or back
> home...
>
> Yes helio could move you from a somewhat secure
> place to one that was not
> secure at all, but no place was "safe".
>
> Everette
>
>
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