'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation
December 4, 202010:53 AM ET
Anthony Kuhn
Anthony Kuhn
Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.
National Archives
John Lee was not trained for combat, but he eventually found himself in the thick of a pivotal battle in the Korean War.
Lee was a sophomore at Korea University in Seoul when the war broke out in June 1950. He joined the South Korean army and was assigned as an interpreter to the U.S. 1st Marine Division.
leading away from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, in an area dubbed "Hell Fire Valley."
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