U.S. death toll from Korean War revised downward, Time reports
June 4, 2000 Web posted at: 7:39 p.m. EDT (2339 GMT) NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Pentagon says a clerical error mistakenly added more than 20,000 noncombatant deaths to the toll of U.S. dead in the Korean War, Time Magazine reported on Sunday.
The Pentagon has revised the number of U.S. soldiers killed during the war from 54,246 to 36,940, the magazine said. The higher figure has been quoted since shortly after both sides declared a truce in 1953. Time said the Pentagon blamed the error on a government clerk, who mistakenly added the 20,617 nonbattlefield military deaths that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield fatalities.
But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths occurred in Korea, the Pentagon said, and most of them were from accidents or disease.
C. 好吧好吧,大家宽容些,就算美国国防部到90年代后期才发现,“某个职员工作出错”导致了把朝战期间“因其他原因死亡”在世界其它各地的美军也“误算”进来了才涨到了朝战死亡5万4,忽悠了美国政府和大众这么多年。那么能不能告诉大家,您这5万4千多里头,究竟哪些是死在外地而被算多了的呢?
Sorry, 还是不行。
http://www.abmc.gov/search/koreanwar.php Korean War Casualties
The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their lives during the Korean War. This includes all losses world wide. Since the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. honors all U.S. Military who lost their lives during the War, we have tried to obtain the names of those who died in other areas besides Korea during the period June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1954, one year after the Korean Armistice. Accessible electronically at the memorial is a Honor Roll database where all 54,246 should be listed. Unfortunately, a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri destroyed many of the records of service personnel and a complete listing is not available. To date, the database includes the names of nearly 39,000 service men and women who died during that period,including the 8,196 missing that are listed on our Honolulu Memorial. The Korean War Honor Roll database, including photographs, is available on this website.
As there has been no peace treaty, Americans who lost their lives in the Demilitarized Zone of Korea since the Armistice have been included. The 8,196 Americans who were Missing in Action or lost or buried at sea and commemorated at the Honolulu Memorial are included in the database at the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
On July 12, 1973, a disastrous fire at NPRC (MPR) destroyed approximately 16-18 million Official Military Personnel Files.