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The Last Stand of Fox Company
A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
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"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.
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.
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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
...Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- The Hill
- The Attack
- The Siege
- “We Will Hold”
- The Ridgerunners
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Postscript 2008
- Afterword 2009
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index