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jrandom421

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12. the Last stand of Fox Company

Reply to Champp (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 13, 2021, 02:39 AM

Oct 2021

During the Korean War, 234 heroic marines from Fox Company, First Division, held off a force of 10,000 Chinese soldiers in subzero weather to secure the Toktong Pass to allow the withdrawal of th First Marine Division.

Another good book about one of the defining battles by Marines in the 20th Century.

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This message was self-deleted by its author Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #1

Chosin wasn't a rout, anyway Red Mountain Oct 2021 #2

China Defeats Evil Imperialists dalton99a Oct 2021 #3

DU members are probably familiar with the barebones of the Korean War Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #4

There's a fairly new book on the subject by Hampton Sides Champp Oct 2021 #5

ty. i will tell my family Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #7

the Last stand of Fox Company jrandom421 Oct 2021 #12

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I often wonder how Korea would have turned out if Russia and the US hadn't decided Russian Spook Oct 2021 #10

It's good their movie business is thriving Sabuca Oct 2021 #13

As a young man in the 80's I fished with a veteran of the "Frozen Chosin" denbot Oct 2021 #14