RETREAT FROM THE CHOSIN RESEVOIR, 1950: 2/4: 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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🗓️ 21 January 2024
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series, |
| 0:02.0 | a series of the world, I'm John Batsu with Patrick K O'Donnell. |
| 0:09.0 | The book is Give Me Tomorrow. |
| 0:11.0 | The Korean Wars Greatest Untold Story, the epic stand of the Marines of George Company. |
| 0:16.0 | This book is gathered from Patrick's interviews with the survivors and the senior figures of George Company in the 21st century reflecting back |
| 0:27.2 | about their conduct and that of their colleagues in the middle of the 20th |
| 0:32.0 | century. We're now in an LVT landing at Blue Beach, one of the three beaches at Incheon. |
| 0:39.0 | The company is led by a captain named Westover at the time. |
| 0:44.1 | Zulu is the senior non-commissioned officer, as Patrick says, many are green. |
| 0:48.9 | Ainschan was not prepped in any fashion that we're used to for the landings even on Guadalajanal but later on |
| 0:58.4 | throughout the Pacific. The Marines had a very careful protocol protocol none of that is followed as far as |
| 1:03.6 | i can understand |
| 1:05.1 | and the marines are |
| 1:07.3 | patrick they're making it up as they go along and they're meeting the north |
| 1:10.4 | k Koreans without adequate maps that was amazing to me that the maps were poor. |
| 1:16.8 | This is, they have to completely improvised as they go along. |
| 1:21.4 | They hit the beach, they have to use actually ladders to climb out of the landing craft because the beach itself is elevated. |
| 1:30.0 | They make their way out and then they can they storm ashore and they're met with |
| 1:35.2 | resistance, not heavy resistance, but they they surprise the North Koreans and it's here that |
| 1:40.7 | they push inland towards Seoul. |
| 1:45.6 | They push inland, however, there's a, it's necessary for us to step back and do some big strategy here. |
| 1:52.4 | MacArthur's committed them to a landing in the middle of. some big strategy here. |
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