What was the ammunition consumption of the US military in the Korean War of World War II?
There are more than 2.82 million bullets for light weapons (rifles, machine guns and pistols), grenades 128 10000, 105 mm shells, 28.22 million, and 60mm mortar shells11680000. In addition, the navy consumed 4,069,626 shells, while the air force, navy and marine corps used 564,436 tons of bombs, 587,789 rockets, 238,657,765,438 shells, 32,357 tons of incendiary bombs and 55,797 smoke bombs. Compilation of documents of the United States Department of War Supervision. "After reading this data, I suddenly wanted to compare it with the figures of the volunteers, so I found out the relevant data in the ammunition consumption statistics table of the volunteers' combat troops entering the DPRK in the Selected Materials of the Logistics Experience to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, made statistics, and compared the approximate figure: 1, and the number of grenades consumed: US Army 1, more than 286,5438+0,000, volunteers. 2. Number of mortar shells consumed: US forces used 60mm mortar shells1168000 rounds, and 0mm mortar shells 12055800 rounds. There are no other mortar shells such as chemical mortars. Volunteers have consumed more than 4.6 million mortars, of which 60. 3. The number of shells consumed, the US military only consumed 28.22 million rounds 105 mm shells, others such as 155 shells and 203 shells are unknown. Volunteers consumed nearly 2.47 million rounds of artillery shells over 70 mm (70,75 rounds, nearly 654.38+0.5 million rounds, 65,438+005,65,438+022 rounds, 965,438+05,000 rounds, 65,438+050,65). According to the compilation of documents of the United States War Department Supervision Administration cited by Kojima in the Korean War, the number of bullets consumed by the US military exceeded 2.82 million, which was obviously low. Correspondingly, volunteers consumed more than 654.38+074.53 million bullets. Let me check the Japanese version of the Korean War in Kojima. It is indeed more than 2.82 million copies. Is it because of his misquoting or typography? The above figures are only some of the figures of the US Army. For example, the US Navy consumed 4,069,626 artillery shells, while the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps used 564,436 tons of bombs, 587,789 rockets, 238,657,765,438 artillery shells, 32,357 tons of incendiary bombs and 55,797 smoke bombs, which are not included in the comparison. If anyone has other figures, such as the consumption figures of US 155 bombs, 203 bombs and chemical mortars.