The Chosin Few

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Ferg
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clarythedrill
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Dont forget what the Army did at the reservoir. The marines arent the only ones who fought valiantly and suffered there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/12/11/50-years-later-an-army-force-gets-its-due/7a49d39b-0c39-4242-b062-a89a57add4f6/
TexasAggie73
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AG
My dad was a Navy corpsman attached to the 1st division. Nothing he would talk about other to say he was there.
Ferg
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The number of Casualties quoted in the post is way off.

Referencing the book Breakout by Martin Russ it says Marines 700+ Dead, almost 200 MIA, 3,500 Wounded and 6,200+ non battle (mostly frostbite) injuries. Temps were as low as 36 below zero. China est 25,000 KIA 12,500 Wounded.

The Army (which included South Korean conscripts with no training) were sent up the other side of the Reservoir and got hammered.
OldArmyCT
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Quote:

"We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."
Attributed to Colonel Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller during the Chosin Reservoir campaign in Korea, November 1950.
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