American Experience: The Battle of Chosin

Description

On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula, to drive North Korea s Communist army out of democratically-held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.