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From http://www.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123012446
Pinned down by a barrage of rocket fire and running out of supplies, American Soldiers staged one of the most valiant stands of the Korean War in the Battle of Unsan. Sheer determination and a strong will to survive were about all the members of the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment had to get them through a fight marked with impossible odds.
The Battle of Unsan, which was one of the most devastating U.S. loses of the Korean War, broke out on the morning of Nov. 1, 1950. …
The men desperately fought off a swarming enemy. Rations were scarce and only provided to the wounded. Ammo was at critical levels — so low that troops were forced to forage for weapons among the enemy dead.
I think the destruction of the Army 31st RCT on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir was the most devastating loss due largely to high command incompetence and gross negligence.
Only 385 doggies out of 3,000 escaped to the 1st Marine perimeter where Chesty Puller threatened to have his tanks fire on them if they withdrew as much as a foot from their assigned positions.