Twelve thousand men of the First Marine Division, along with a few thousand Army soldiers, suddenly found themselves surrounded, outnumbered and at risk of annihilation at the Chosin Reservoir ...
Pvt. Hector Albert Cafferata Jr. was awarded the Medal of Honor after facing an overwhelming attack on Thanksgiving Day in Korea.
The first lieutenant's undertaking came during the vicious Battle of Chosin Reservoir ... and returned to the front" to link up with the 1st Marine Battalion, according to the New York Times.
All of this would come to a head at the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in late November. As 16,000 American soldiers, consisting mostly of the 1st and 7th US Marine divisions, settled in areas ...
About a dozen years ago, when Haffeman was in his early 70s, he mentioned to a friend that he had seen action in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir ... The 1st Marine Division, divided into four ...
On the night of November 27, 1950, US Marines and Army soldiers suddenly came under intense human-wave attacks by Chinese soldiers on both sides of the Chosin ... of the 1st Marine Division ...