Page 22 - General Raymond G. Davis USMC, Korean War

BREAK OUT OF THE

FROZEN CHOSIN

DECEMBER 1st - 4th 1950

The 1st Marine and 7th Infantry divisions

advanced forward to the north toward the

Chosin Reservoir. From there the two

divisions would move west toward Kanggye,

a mountain mining town where the Chinese

and North Korean armies seemed to be

concentrating—a maneuver that would place

the two divisions north of and behind the

Chinese People's Volunteer Force (CPVF)

armies facing the Eighth Army. MacArthur’s

scheme required an 55-mile advance over a

single unpaved road through the heart of the

T’aebaek Mountains in freezing weather and

blinding snowstorms.