Post by elmerfudd on Oct 10, 2024 16:19:09 GMT
I recently read this book, Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson.
C and P from the wikipeter:
Despite the fact that more than 40 percent of the 7,140 Americans taken prisoner during the Korean War died in captivity, the survivors remain the most maligned victims of all American wars. For more than a half century, the media, general public, and even scholars have classified literally hundreds of these former prisoners as "brainwashed" victims of a heinous enemy or, even worse, as "turncoats" who betrayed their country. In either case, those accused apparently lacked the "right stuff" America expected of her brave sons. The most notorious reinforcement of this condemnation appeared in the well-made but badly distorted 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, but ... countless novels and short stories, myriad news accounts, and even scholarly treatises perpetuated this negative image.
— Lewis H. Carlson, Preface, Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War.[3]
Link to the wikipeter:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembered_Prisoners_of_a_Forgotten_War
A must read for any military historian. Here's a tidbit: a prisoner decided the recurring scabs on his bedsores (but not from bed, I can assure you were actually a blessing because he could eat them for additional nourishment.
C and P from the wikipeter:
Despite the fact that more than 40 percent of the 7,140 Americans taken prisoner during the Korean War died in captivity, the survivors remain the most maligned victims of all American wars. For more than a half century, the media, general public, and even scholars have classified literally hundreds of these former prisoners as "brainwashed" victims of a heinous enemy or, even worse, as "turncoats" who betrayed their country. In either case, those accused apparently lacked the "right stuff" America expected of her brave sons. The most notorious reinforcement of this condemnation appeared in the well-made but badly distorted 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, but ... countless novels and short stories, myriad news accounts, and even scholarly treatises perpetuated this negative image.
— Lewis H. Carlson, Preface, Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War.[3]
Link to the wikipeter:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembered_Prisoners_of_a_Forgotten_War
A must read for any military historian. Here's a tidbit: a prisoner decided the recurring scabs on his bedsores (but not from bed, I can assure you were actually a blessing because he could eat them for additional nourishment.
