The Korean War - CHOSIN RESERVOIR
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Korean War - With the Marines from Chosin to Hungnam
1950 | Combat Footage | Documentary film
1950 | Combat Footage | Documentary film
Chosin Resevoir
The Chosin Reservoir Campaign of the Korean War is the stuff of legend in the Marine Corps. During the pivotal 1950 battle, 15,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines, alongside another 15,000 UN soldiers, fought through a force of 120,000 Chinese soldiers to reach the sea some 78 miles away.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chosin-reservoir-campaign-marine-corps-2014-6?op=1#ixzz39jeICAIE
The Chosin Reservoir Campaign of the Korean War is the stuff of legend in the Marine Corps. During the pivotal 1950 battle, 15,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines, alongside another 15,000 UN soldiers, fought through a force of 120,000 Chinese soldiers to reach the sea some 78 miles away.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chosin-reservoir-campaign-marine-corps-2014-6?op=1#ixzz39jeICAIE
US Marine Corps
Troops halted on the road south of Hagaru-ri waiting for a roadblock to be cleared. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chosin-reservoir-campaign-marine-corps-2014-6?op=1#ixzz39juIpM6K |
Marines halted on the road between Yudam-ni and Toktong Pass while other troops are clearing the ridges of Chinese.
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A column of troops and armor of the of the U.S. 1st Marine Division move through communist Chinese lines in 1950 during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir |
In this photo released by the U.S. Marines, a group of Marines fighting their way from the communist encirclement at Chosin to Hungnam, Korea, take a rest in the snow somewhere on the route in Dec. 1950 during the Korean War.
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United States Marines sit covered with ice and snow in this handout photograph taken at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in North Korea in December of 1950. Thousands of veterans of "Frozen Chosin", as the two-week-long battle is sometimes referred to, suffered frostbite in 30-below-zero temperatures. The Department of Veterans Affairs for the first time has formally recognized the long-term effects of frostbite as a service-related injury
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chosin-reservoir-campaign-marine-corps-2014-6?op=1#ixzz39jkAMy9R In this photo released by the U.S. Marine Corps, a small detail of U.S. Marines lies in the snow with rifles ready at a curve in a road near Yudan in the Chosin Reservoir area northwest of the port of Hungnam, Korea, Nov. 29, 1950. They are shown at their snowy post as the 1st and 7th Marine regiments were retiring under heavy pressure by three enemy divisions.
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A column of 7th Marines pushes thru to
the Marines at Chosin Reservoir In this Dec. 22, 1950 file photo, frostbite casualties of First Marine Division and Seventh Infantry Division who linked to break out of Communist encirclement wait for evacuation by plane in the Changjin area, North Korea. Thomas Hudner, now a retired Navy captain, heads to Pyongyang on Saturday, July 20, 2013 with hopes of traveling in the coming week to the region known in North Korea as the Jangjin Reservoir, accompanied by soldiers from the Korean People's Army, to the spot where the Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown died in December 1950. The reservoir was the site of one of the Korean War's deadliest battles for Americans, who knew the place by its Japanese name, Chosin. The snowy mountain region was nicknamed the "Frozen Chosin," and survivors are known in U.S. history books as the "Chosin Few."
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