Chinese Soldiers at Chosin Couldn't Believe the Marine Who Shouted "Don't Shoot, I'm Chinese"

At Sudong, at the start of the Chosin campaign, First Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee walked ahead of his own line in the dark and shouted at the hidden Chinese positions in Chinese, words he later rendered as "Don't shoot! I'm Chinese!", to draw their fire and expose their guns. Weeks later, wounded and with one arm still immobilized, he left the hospital, walked the last ten miles back to his Marines and led a platoon of 1st Battalion, 7th Marines across three frozen ridges to the surrounded defenders of Fox Hill. 0:00 A column appears below Fox Hill 0:25 December second, nineteen fifty 1:15 Back to Sudong 2:05 Lee draws enemy fire 3:35 The Chinese-American Marine 5:05 Return from the hospital 6:35 Frozen medicine on Fox Hill 8:05 The opposing plan 9:35 Eight miles across three ridges 11:05 Baker Company reaches Fox 12:40 The pass remains open 14:05 Lee protects the wounded 15:20 The road toward Hungnam Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65009... https://valor.militarytimes.com/recip... https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.8... https://www.usmcmuseum.com/uploads/6/... https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine... https://db.history.go.kr/item/powr/le... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Archival footage & credits: Film: U.S. Government works (USMC, U.S. Army Signal Corps, U.S. Navy, DoD), public domain, via the National Archives and the Internet Archive — used in short, re-framed excerpts as visual evidence: • This is Korea (Parts 1 and 2) (1951) · archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava18577vnb1 • WITH THE MARINES -- CHOSEN TO HUNGNAM (1951) · archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.23968 • MARINE RETREAT IN KOREA (1950) · archive.org/details/111-adc-10271 • Big Picture: The United Nations Offensive (1950) · archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569441 • UNITED NATIONS CAMPAIGN IN NORTHEAST KOREA (1952) · archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.20365 • COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 105 U.N. FORCES ESCAPE TRAP (1951) · archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.20268 • Big Picture: United Nations Forces Escape the Chinese Trap (1950) · archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569443 • GEN DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUS ARRIVING AT YONGPO AIRSTRIP AND EVAC OF WOUNDED, KOREA ; TURKISH TR… (1950) · archive.org/details/111-adc-8582 • + 13 more U.S. Government reels (National Archives / Internet Archive) Photographs & documents: U.S. Marine Corps official photograph; Billy C. Mossman, U.S. Army CMH, Ebb and Flow, Map 7; Navy Cross citation, Board of Awards Serial 1204; USMC portrait; Billy C. Mossman, U.S. Army CMH, Ebb and Flow, Map 5; Billy C. Mossman, U.S. Army CMH, Ebb and Flow, p. 95; Marine Corps University, official U.S. Government map; NARA 127-N-A5387; History Division, U.S. Marine Corps; Marine Corps University map; Montross & Canzona, pp. 264–265. Maps: drawn by Forgotten War Memo from Natural Earth data; Chosin Reservoir © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); terrain: Terrarium elevation tiles (AWS Open Data). Original research, script, narration, maps, animated graphics and edit: Forgotten War Memo. Some scenes use illustrative footage of the campaign, not the specific men named.