I recommend reading up on Chosin for those who haven’t.
It’s literally incredible. If I didn’t know better I’d say it was fiction. Some of the most incessant, savage and heroic fighting, under the most impossible and painful conditions, ever.
Ever.
My Isshin Ryu karate instructor back in the ‘60’s was one of the “Chosin Few”...His name was Harold Long...
He never said anything about it...I didn’t learn of it until I read his history at the time of his death...
Great man....
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
McCarther blundered when he exposed his troops to such a flank, right? I’m not taking away anything from the valiant and successful effort of the troops to stage a strategic retreat.