with wind chill it was -32 the day I arrived in Seoul.
with wind chill it was -32 the day I left Seoul.
Wonderful people. Great time for the year I spent there.
Hardest working folks in the world.
You never hear much about the 2 battalions of the 31st infantry regiment and the single battalion of the 32nd infantry regiment of the 7th Infantry Division East of the Chosin Reservoir known as Task Force Faith and how they were abandoned East of the reservoir and held of the bulk of the Chinese Forces for 5 days before they were virtually eliminated.
Without task force faiths 5 day delay of the bulk of the Chinese Divisions attacking at Chosin the marines would not have gotten beyond Hagaru-ri.
My Dad was on the West of the Peninsula near Pyong-yang, the Capitol of North Korea, and just south of the Yalu river with the 24th ID of the Eighth Army. Their fight was just as bad and just as cold and just as desperate.
https://armyhistory.org/nightmare-at-the-chosin-reservoir/