The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign was a decisive battle in the Korean War. About 3000 American Marine and Army soldiers came. Over 1,000 of them stayed forever. They fought and died on a 10-mile stretch of frozen, snow covered dirt road on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir.
It was bitter cold. The temperature was well below zero. The wind howled. Snow fell - a snow so dry that dust from the road mixed with it in yellowish clouds that swirled about the column of trucks. Tundra - like, bleak, and without vegetation in most places, the land was very depressing.
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