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CHOSIN CAMPAIGN
DATE: Nov. - Dec. 1950
STRENGTH OF FORCES:
(APPROXIMATE)
CHINA - 120,000
UNITED NATIONS - 20,000
CASUALTY FIGURES:
CHINA - 25,000 dead; 12,500
LOCATION: Chosin Reservoir, wounded; 30,000 frostbite
in the north-eastern part of
UNITED STATES - 718 dead; 192
North Korea
missing; 3,508 wounded; 7,500
Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, cold-related injuries
was a campaign early in the
Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive from
November–December 1950 to drive the United Nations out of
North Korea. The Chosin Reservoir campaign was directed
mainly against the 1st Marine Division, which had
disembarked in eastern North Korea and moved inland in
severe winter weather to a mountainous area near the reservoir.
The Chinese did not achieve their particular objective of
isolating and destroying the 1st Marine Division. Instead, in a
deliberate retrograde movement that has become one of the
most-storied exploits in Marine Corps lore, the Marines turned
and fought their way down a narrow vulnerable road through
several mountain passes and a bridged chasm until they
reached transport ships waiting at the coast.
