Re: Book review: Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union and the Ai...

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Robert,

>>At 09:24 PM 7/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> What I posted was an action involving the Chinese. Although there were 
> actions involving combined forces, they fought as seperate units. (N. 
> Korean or Chinese)  The Chinese were not averse to killing prisoners, nor 
> am I aware of any instance when they allowed us to recover our wounded, 
> and there were times they used our dead as bait to ambush recovery 
> efforts. (Not my unit but others of record) <<
There were a number of recorded instances where the Chinese treated our 
wounded and then returned these people to UN lines.  There also were a 
couple of instances where they allowed medics through to pick up our 
wounded and dead.  True, these were the exception, not the rule.  And there 
also are recorded instances where Chinese troops shot prisoners.  However, 
overall the Chinese did treat our POW's much better than the North Koreans did.

Ed