![]() Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war.Īs he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides ( Ghost Soldiers, In the Kingdom of Ice), will discuss and sign copies of his new book, On Desperate Ground-a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. ![]()
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