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MAO'S CHINA ATTACKS: 1/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company,by Patrick K. O'Donnell.

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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MAO'S CHINA ATTACKS: 1/4: Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company,by Patrick K. O'Donnell.

https://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Tomorrow-Greatest-Story/dp/0306818019/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

After nearly four months of continuous and agonizing combat on the battlefields of Korea, such a simple request seemed impossible. For many men of George Company, or “Bloody George” as they were known—one of the Forgotten War’s most decorated yet unrecognized companies—it was a wish that would not come true.

This is the untold story of “Bloody George,” a Marine company formed quickly to answer its nation’s call to duty in 1950. This small band of men—a colorful cast of characters, including a Native American fighting to earn his honor as a warrior, a Southern boy from Tennessee at odds with a Northern blue-blood reporter-turned-Marine, and a pair of twins who exemplified to the group the true meaning of brotherhood—were mostly green troops who had been rushed through training to fill America’s urgent need on the Korean front. They would find themselves at the tip of the spear in some of the Korean War’s bloodiest battles.

After storming ashore at Inchon and fighting house to house in Seoul, George Company, one of America’s last units in reserve, found itself on the frozen tundra of the Chosin Reservoir facing elements of an entire division of Chinese troops. They didn’t realize it then, but they were soon to become crucial to the battle—modern-day Spartans called upon to hold off ten times their number. Give Me Tomorrow is their unforgettable story of bravery and courage.

1950 South Korea

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Patrick is the author of Give Me Tomorrow,

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The Korean Wars Greatest Untold Story,

0:55.8

the epic stand of the Marines of George Company.

0:58.7

We go immediately to the end of November 1950. We're in a place that is, according to the memory of the

1:07.1

veterans of the Marine Corps, is a place that's suggestive of

1:11.4

primeval times, dinosaurs could come out of the

1:15.1

hills. This is the area that is remembered as the retreat from the chosen

1:20.9

reservoir, but really it's a long roadway all the way up to the

1:24.8

chosen reservoir from the sea of Japan. We're at a place now where there is

1:29.8

desperation. The Chinese in the hundreds of thousands have attacked the Marines of Tencore,

1:39.5

who are strung along this long road and in and around the Chosun Reservoir, the group we care

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