[Saije]

Kudos to these new vets for doing this.

[Tainan]

The Chosin Few

[muawiyah]

It's well worth reading about the event these gentlemen are going to document with interviews and assemblies of existing film.

Not everybody there was a Marine ~ most everyone was, but not everyone ~ the 1st and 15th U S Army Infantry "held the door" for the final Marine withdrawal.

That's probably the first, last and only time the Army Infantry did the honor of escorting the Marine Infantry, but any documentary has to include the materials in the DOD and DIA files concerning that "small" part of a far larger event.

[Doctor Don]

We ought to have nuked the Chinese crossing the Yalu River!

[Dubya]

[Dubya]

[Dubya]

BAND OF BROTHERS CHOSEN

[SunkenCiv]

The Americans had to fight their way out, battling non-stop for 14 days, killing more than 30,000 Chinese as they trekked 70 miles to safety. Along the way, rescuing 100,000 refugees. But their courageous escape came at a severe cost. More than 3,100 Americans, nearly a third of them marines, were killed and 13,000 wounded.

The Chinese losses during their year-long invasion of Korea were monumental -- and that was no accident. US troops just outfought the bastards, and of course had air and artillery superiority.

The Chinese "volunteers" were each sent with a ten pound bag of rice, and if they ran low, they could just grab the unused portion off a dead comrade. The official figures are ridiculously low; the US estimates (based on burials of recovered Chinese dead and other info) range as high as 20 per cent KIA among the Chinese invasion troops, or approximately eight times US KIA despite the Chinese' later start.