Korea USMC Tank and Troops Withdraw from Chosin Reservoir, 1950

Download a larger version:
2880x2312 pixels (2.9MB file).

Download fee: $1.00 [Help/FAQ]

This photo was taken during the Korean War on the road between Koto-ri and Hagaru-ri by a U.S. Marine Corps photographer 27 November 1950 as a column of troops and armor of the 1st Marine Division withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area in North Korea. The U.S.M.C. staged their fighting withdrawal in the face of overwhelming odds from Chinese Army forces injected into the Korean War a few days earlier. Despite the six to one mismatch in numbers, and brutal sub-zero weather conditions, the Marines decimated the Chinese and emerged as intact units that went on to fight again.

The tank appears to be an M-26 Pershing.

Today in WW II: 8 Feb 1940 Germans establish the first large Jewish ghetto in Poland in the city of Lodz. More ↓

8 Feb 1941 US House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act [265 to 165].
8 Feb 1942 Battle of Sarimbun Beach begins, the first stage of the Japanese assault on Singapore.
8 Feb 1942 Japanese Offensive in Burma begins [8 Feb-2 May].
8 Feb 1945 Battle of the Reichswald: British and Canadian forces under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery begin Operation Veritable [8 Feb-11 Mar].
Visit the Olive-Drab.com World War II Timeline for day-by-day events 1939-1945! See also WW2 Books.