MAO'S CHINA ATTACKS: 4/4: 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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🗓️ 27 November 2023
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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.
1953 Panmujom Armistice
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series, |
| 0:05.0 | this is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Patrick K. O'Donnell. His book is Give Me |
| 0:10.6 | Tomorrow, the Korean War's Greatest Untold Story, the epic stand of the Marines of |
| 0:15.2 | George Company. |
| 0:16.8 | The fifth, first, and seventh Marines must now escape down a single road with Chinese on both sides |
| 0:25.8 | lobbying all of their ordinance in against them and they must keep moving. |
| 0:30.3 | The most amazing part of this is that as in any thrilling Hollywood movie |
| 0:35.3 | There is a break in a bridge over a 2,000 foot drop in a cow in a cauldron on the way down. The bridge has been blown by the |
| 0:48.4 | Chinese and the North Koreans knowing that the Marines were going to try to make their escape. |
| 0:53.5 | This was a trap of traps. |
| 0:55.7 | How do they make that bridge? |
| 0:57.3 | How do they cross it, Patrick? |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, this is an incredible story. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, this thing is nearly almost a you know half a mile deep sheer drop down |
| 1:06.4 | into this abyss and it's you know several many yards long that they have to somehow span this chasm and it looks to be impossible but you know |
| 1:20.0 | I'll note that the the Marines are actually advancing as they like to say they're |
| 1:23.7 | advancing in a different direction and they're chewing up these Chinese armies |
| 1:27.9 | that are surrounding them they're they're inflicting massive casualties but to |
| 1:32.1 | span the chasm, |
| 1:33.8 | they drop a treadway bridge in by an airborne drop by parachute. |
| 1:40.3 | It never been done before. |
| 1:42.2 | And they assemble it. They basically. and they |
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