Lt. Alfred J. Anderson, B/31, awarded Distinguished Service Cross for actions at Hell's Fire Valley. [16] Fearing an invasion, Communist China’s leader Mao Zedong deployed 200,000 soldiers of the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) across the Yalu, 120,000 of whom headed toward the Chosin River Valley. With highly disciplined nighttime-only marches, these forces evaded detection and entered the war in early November. But their evasive maneuvers lured Marines and U.S. Army divisions into a valley around a storage lake called the Chosin Reservoir. Division Artillery Hq Battery 31st Field Artillery Battalion 48th Field Artillery Battalion 49th Field Artillery Battalion 51st Field Artillery Battalion 17th Infantry Regiment – COL Herbert B. Powell The Chosin Reservoir battle has become one of the most storied exploits of grit and sacrifice in Marine Corps history. In the words of Commanding General Oliver P. Smith: “Retreat, hell. We’re not retreating. We’re just advancing in another direction.” Lt Joseph Ronald "Bull" Fisher, in command of Item Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, awarded Navy Cross

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The two Corsairs were already low on fuel. While Kaufman and Komoroff orbited down low against the inevitable arrival of enemy troops, Schreiber went high to call a rescue chopper. With two already down, the nearest was 100 miles up the coast, off the light cruiser Manchester. Marine Corps pilot Lieutenant Edward Moore and 1st Lt. Kenneth Henry were artillery spotting for shore bombardment, Henry having volunteered just for a taste of combat. They hurried south. Fox Company tenaciously held their hill and secured the pass until they were relieved by the 7th Marines on the breakout from Yudam-Ni to Hagaru-Ri.

The first members of 41 Commando to see action belonged to Poundforce, a 14-man team under the command of Lt. Edgar Pounds. Attached to a U.S. Army Ranger battalion, Poundforce supported the Inchon landings by conducting a diversionary raid along the Korean west coast on the night of September 12/13. Following the raid, Poundforce was attached to the U.S. 1st Marine Division (1st MARDIV), which by month’s end helped liberate Seoul. Parish, James Robert. The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare on the Screen. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8108-2315-0. After continuous fighting from Yudam-Ni to Gagaru-Ri through battered and bloody, all who could walk formed up and marched into Hagaru-Ri, singing The Marines’ Hymn on 4 December.

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On Feb. 2, 1952, 41 (Independent) Commando, Royal Marines, formally disbanded. Re-formed in 1960, the unit saw action in East Africa, Northern Ireland and other trouble spots until again disbanded in 1981. American veterans of the battle are colloquially referred to as the "Chosin Few" and symbolized by the "Star of Koto-ri". [248] The Chosin Few Battle Monumenta heavy bridge which was installed by Army and Marine engineers who were protected by continuous close air support, infantry from the withdrawing force, and a company of MArines who had fought over the hills from Chinhung-Ni. Without the bridge the entire U.N. Force and the thousands of North Korean refugees who were following them to freedom might have been killed or captured. Walker, Mark (15 September 2010). "MILITARY: 'Chosin Few' Monument Dedicated at Camp Pendleton". Escondido, CA: North County Times. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010 . Retrieved 2 October 2010.

On October 3/4 the commando targeted the railway south of Chongjin, though they withdrew on finding it heavily guarded. Two days later the marines attempted another landing near Sorye-dong, but their canoes came under fire as they reached shore, forcing another withdrawal. Stewart, Richard W., Staff Operations: The X Corps in Korea, December 1950], Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, April 1991 Major General Edward Almond (seated), commander of the US XCorps, and Major General Oliver P. Smith, commander of the US 1st Marine Division.White, who spent his formative years in Idaho, Missouri and eastern Washington state, saw his father move from job to job as a bookkeeper to keep the family afloat during the Depression. As a high-school freshman in Spokane in 1941, White idealized young pilots training for war, who seemed ever-popular with the girls. By the time of his graduation and 18th birthday in 1945, he switched gears, signing up for the Marine Corps. He had barely finished his training at Camp Pendleton when Japan surrendered, ending World War II. Ryan, Mark A.; Finkelstein, David M.; McDevitt, Michael A. (2003), Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 0765610876