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 Remembrance: Marines and Navy Medicine at Korea’s Chosin Reservoir
December 11, 2020 Defense Feed
 

This report originally publishes at marines.mil.

Seventy years ago the 1st Marine Division was fighting in the mountains around Korea’s Chosin Reservoir. It was a brutal winter – by some reports the coldest on record – and Marines were facing subzero temperatures, frostbite, hypothermia, and dehydration. The temperatures were so unbearable that Marines who served at the reservoir said the cold “would sink right to your bones.” It was so cold that weapons were malfunctioning and at times Marines were fighting hand-to-hand, using rifle butts, their teeth and anything they could get their hands on to fend off the relentless attacks…

U.S. Marines set up their mortar to take communist positions under fire near Chosin Reservoir.

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/ai/remembrance-marines-and-navy-medicine-at-koreas-chosin-reservoir/