The Last Stand of Fox Company

A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Année: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781555849122
• Sujet: History
• Sous-sujet: Military & Maritime History

"The authors of the bestselling Halsey's Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War's darkest moment." — Publishers Weekly November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10, 000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100, 000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox's Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.

Index

Abell, Ralph, 290–92, 295, 300, 303, 308

Able Rifle Company, 91, 145, 241, 258, 259, 269, 270, 278–80

alcohol, 104. See also whiskey; specific soldiers

Almond, Edward M., 13, 14, 20, 146, 171, 189, 207, 236

Arioli, Peter, 251–52, 279–81, 286

“army” (Chinese), 47–48

Art of War, The. See Sun-tzu

Ashdale, Thomas G., 74, 76, 160, 165–66

“assembly on the objective,” 84

atomic bomb, 56–57, 236

Attlee, Clement, 236

Audas, John D., 303

Ashdale and, 74

background, 107

Barber and, 175, 273

Bonelli and, 107, 113, 175, 182

casualty report, 183

Chinese soldiers and, 112–14, 289

Ernest Gonzalez and, 117, 286

Klein and, 275

McCarthy and, 66–67, 74, 175

orders, 179

wounded, 307

Australian Mustangs, 137, 142–43, 190, 220

“backdoor” scheme, 190–91

Baker Company, 241, 275, 279, 280, 295, 311. See also Sudong Gorge

Able and, 280

accomplishments, 20

Audas and, 275

Chew-Een Lee and, 253, 256, 259, 270, 311

Fox Company and, 20

How Company and, 269–70

Kurcaba and, 253, 262, 270, 275, 277–78, 311

Raymond Davis and, 49, 259, 263, 269–70, 277–78, 280

Turkey Hill and, 49

Barber, William Edward, 32–34, 36–38, 75–76, 96, 187, 203–4, 214, 224, 235, 247, 272–73

after the war, 313

Arioli and, 279

attitudes toward and views of, 32

Audas and, 175, 273

awards and honors, 24, 300, 312–14

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