What transpired at Chosin created some animosity between the US Army and the USMC, still lingering in some quarters today.
In my opinion, General Almond (Army) deserved much of the criticism he got.
An amazing, simply amazing battle. Talk about guts...those guys who hiked over that mountain in the middle of the night, in the snow up to their waists in 30 below zero temps and caught the Chicoms by surprise on the other side (who were caught totally with their pants down) and mortared the crap out of them...that's balls and toughness. They were already pretty frozen and compromised to begin with, but they did it.
Agreed - as did the situation on Saipan in WWII, though I put much of the blame for that incident on USMC Gen Howlin Mad Smith...