RETREAT FROM THE CHOSIN RESEVOIR, 1950: 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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🗓️ 21 January 2024
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- RETREAT FROM THE CHOSIN RESEVOIR, 1950: 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.
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.
1951 USAF
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| 0:40.7 | CBSI on the world. I'm John Battler with Patrick K. O'Donnell. His book is Give Me Tomorrow, The Korean Wars Greatest Untold Story the epic |
| 0:44.2 | stand of the Marines of George Company. The fifth, first, and seventh Marines |
| 0:50.3 | must now escape down a single road with Chinese on both sides |
| 0:55.4 | lobbying all of their ordinates in against them and they must keep moving. |
| 1:00.0 | The most amazing part of this is that as in any thrilling Hollywood movie |
| 1:05.4 | There is a break in a bridge over a 2,000 foot drop in a cauldron on the way down a |
| 1:13.3 | call dran on the way down. The bridge has been blown by the |
| 1:18.1 | by the Chinese and the North Koreans knowing that the Marines were going to try to make their escape. |
| 1:23.6 | This was a trap of traps. |
| 1:25.8 | How do they make that bridge? |
| 1:27.4 | How do they cross it, Patrick? |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, this is an incredible story. |
| 1:30.6 | I mean, this thing is nearly almost a you know half a mile deep sheer drop down into this |
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