The material treatment is generous. According to the prisoners' confessions, the monthly salary of the US military ranged from 75 to 100 yuan for soldiers, 125 to 187 yuan for sergeants, 200 to 350 yuan for captains, 385 to 500 yuan for colonels, and 625 to 850 yuan for generals. In addition to the monthly salary, there is a family allowance, including rent and rations, and the rent allowance for soldiers is 625 yuan, the rent allowance for the lieutenant is 60 yuan to 90 yuan, the rent allowance for the school officer is 105 yuan, and the ration allowance for the lieutenant and the school officer is 42 yuan.
If they are wounded or disabled in battle, they are given a monthly allowance of 75 yuan until they die, and the families of the war dead can receive a pension of 10,000 yuan. The Air Force also has a combat allowance, which can be paid more than 80 yuan for each bombing mission. In terms of clothing, each person is given 2 pairs of leather shoes, 6 khaki shirts and pants, 2 sweaters, 6 ties, 5 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of woolen socks, 1 coat and 3 military hats per person every year.
Many U.S. soldiers were treated well materially and joined the army for a better life. According to the statistics of 20 captured American soldiers, 12 workers had to enlist because they were unemployed, 5 students joined the army because they could not find jobs or go to school and envy the living conditions of the army, and 3 farmers joined the army because they worked too hard to farm.
Based on this, the volunteers came to the conclusion that the US ** team can be said to have been piled up on US dollars. He also believes that such "well-fed, well-dressed, and well-enjoyed gentlemen will inevitably lose their will to fight when they encounter difficulties and dangers on the battlefield." ”
War weariness was strong. They are generally afraid of war and miss the peaceful and prosperous life at home. This sentiment was exacerbated by the disillusionment that "the war will be over before Thanksgiving", "you will be home at Christmas", and "you will be home soon". Many prisoners unanimously said that they did not want to fight, and American soldiers always wrote such words in letters to their relatives at home: "I am really lucky not to be *** in Korea" or "Since the Chinese People's Volunteers entered the war, the war does not know when it will end, and it is even more impossible to return home", "You may die at any time, you must pray to God for me". The widespread war-weariness also affected their families back home, and one American woman wrote to her husband: "Let Old Man Truman go by himself next time there is another war!"We don't want to fight anymore!”
Homesick, wife, afraid of death. Each of the captured American soldiers has a wife, children or fiancée, and even retains the hair of his wife and children, and some have red lips on his letters and letters. When the 179th Regiment of the 60th Division of the 20th Army fought in Changsoon-ri, it prompted more than 240 American troops and South Korean troops to surrender, and the conditions they put forward at that time included: first, to ensure the safety of life;The second is to send them back home;The third is to contact the family as soon as possible, especially with the lover and mother;The fourth is to ask for rest and sleep. The soldiers of the Volunteer Army sighed that such soldiers must be very afraid of death in battle. After the battle of the 81st Division of the 27th Army was over in Xinxingli, when the 1st Battalion of the 242nd Regiment was cleaning up the battlefield, it found that many prisoners were hiding in the pile of dead people and pretending to be dead, their bodies were warm, their eyes were open, and their feet could move, but they ignored them when they were called.
The Volunteer Army believes that the characteristics of American soldiers are that their personal interests are higher than national interests. As long as they are given cigarettes, food, and hot beds, they are willing to say anything. On the surface, the US military is a powerful army with modern equipment and standardization, but the most prominent feature of its internal political factors is individualism.
In stark contrast, ** said when summing up the reasons for the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: "The enemy has more steel and less gas, and we have less steel and more gas!".”