Battle of Chosin Reservoir: The 17 Days the Cold Took More Men Than the Chinese

The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950: seventeen days in temperatures below minus thirty, and the cold that took more men than the Chinese did. 📍 In late November 1950, the 1st Marine Division and an Army task force east of the reservoir were strung out along a single mountain road deep in North Korea when Chinese divisions came out of the hills around them at night. For seventeen days they fought their way south toward the sea, holding Toktong Pass, Hagaru-ri and Koto-ri, and crossing the Funchilin Pass on a bridge dropped in sections from the air. More than seven thousand non-battle casualties came out of those hills, most of them frostbite. The men who survived it have called themselves the Chosin Few ever since. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 The Chosin Reservoir, November 1950 00:00 How They Got There 00:00 The Night of 27 November 00:00 Toktong Pass 00:00 East of the Reservoir 00:00 Hagaru-ri 00:00 Yudam-ni 00:00 Koto-ri 00:00 Funchilin Pass 00:00 The Reckoning - - 📚 Every story on The Outpost War is told with respect for the men who fought in Korea. Narration is built on official histories, unit records, and published accounts by those who were there. Where figures differ between sources, the script says so. Archive footage is held by the US National Archives and is in the public domain; footage shown is representative of the period and may not depict the specific action described. Further reading: Lynn Montross & Nicholas Canzona, The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, US Marine Corps Historical Branch Roy E. Appleman, East of Chosin (1987) Hampton Sides, On Desperate Ground (2018) - - #KoreanWar #ChosinReservoir #BattleOfChosin #FrozenChosin #ChosinFew #1stMarineDivision #USMC #ToktongPass #Hagaruri #KoreanWarHistory #ForgottenWar #MilitaryHistory #Korea1950 #WinterWarfare #WarDocumentary