William Fischel Dean was born in August 1899, and is a major general of the Army. 1922 graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Meritorious service in World War II was awarded the Cross for Outstanding Service. He was defeated by Daejeon in the Korean War and was captured. His masterpiece, The Adventures of Korean Caption.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chinese people's Volunteer Army captured thousands of "United Nations Army" soldiers. In July, 1953, 2 1 American prisoners of war and 1 British prisoners of war captured by the China army announced that they refused to be sent back to their own countries and chose to live and live in China. After the incident was made public, world public opinion was in an uproar.
Later, among these 22 prisoners of war, james geogre veneris, an American prisoner of war, stayed in China and lived in Jinan for 50 years. People used to call him "Lao Wen". In 2004, Wennerys died in Jinan, Shandong Province at the age of 82. China Red Cross Society and other units successively presented wreaths to him.
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This volunteer camp is called "Prisoner Management Office of Chinese people's Volunteer Army Political Department" and is located in Bidong, North Korea. The Prisoner Management Office * * * received more than 5,000 prisoners from 14 countries and regions, mainly American prisoners, with more than 3,000 prisoners; Followed by British prisoners, nearly 1000; There are also prisoners from Turkey, the Philippines, France, Colombia, Canada, Australia and other countries.
Each prisoner squadron is a catering unit, and the prisoners of the squadron run their own canteens. The prisoners themselves elected a "food management committee", chose their own chefs and managed their own food.
In order to take care of the prisoners' living habits, a bread oven was specially brought from China. For Turkish prisoners who believe in Islam, live cattle and sheep were brought from China. The prisoner's food standard is 875 grams of food per person per day. White flour and rice replaced early corn and sorghum, using 50 grams of cooking oil, 50 grams of meat, 50 grams of fish, 50 grams of eggs and 25 grams of sugar.
The daily food cost for common focus 1545 yuan (old RMB, the same below), light focus 23 13 yuan, and heavy focus 3634 yuan. Prisoners' meals are generally equivalent to the standard of small and medium-sized stoves for cadres at or above the regimental level of our volunteers, which is much higher than that of ordinary cadres and soldiers of the volunteers.
Clothing standard: 1 set of brand-new blue cotton-padded clothes, trousers, cotton caps, rubber-soled cotton shoes and gloves, and each person in winter and spring 1 gray cotton-padded clothes; Each person has 1 quilt and 1 blanket. In summer and autumn, each person has two sets of single clothes and two shirts, as well as towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shoes and socks and other daily necessities.
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