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Just finished this. About a Marine rifle company at Chosin Reservoir that has to hold open a crucial pass. They do it for five days of almost continuous assaults with temperatures dropping to 30 below at night before they're reinforced. Seventy five per cent of the company are killed, wounded or captured. In 1981 A former Marine Corps Commendant wrote to the Fox Company Commanding officer and stated, "I regard your performance as commander of Fox Company at Toktong Pass from 27 November to 2 December 1950 as the single most distinguished act of personal courage and extraordinary leadership I have witnessed or about which I have heard". Good book, first hand accounts and a lot of documentation, it moves.
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just bought the book on disc for my Dad, muddywater's, birthday next week....glad to get the review.
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