He told me that he had always believed nothing could be worse than the Bulge, but the Chosin campaign changed his mind. Army in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. I met a Marine after the battle who had served with the U.S. Other battles have had high battle casualties and fierce fighting, but it was the severe weather and the fact that we were fighting off six Chinese divisions that made the Chosin Reservoir campaign so different from the rest. armed forces, and every battle seems rough for the participants, but I do believe that Chosin was a classic example of a small but well-disciplined force prevailing over a tenacious enemy, severe weather and overwhelming odds. There have been many bloody and savage battles by U.S. I imagine that you agree.īergee: Yes, I do. Military History: President Ronald Reagan cited the Chosin Reservoir battle in his inaugural address as one of the classics of military history. Bergee, interviewed recently for Military History, tells the story of the so-called Chosin Few. Many words have been written about the fighting and the bravery during the Chosin Reservoir battle, but not much has been said about what it felt like to be there. Marine Corps, who survived the horrors of Bataan, Corregidor, the Death March, the prisoner-of-war camps and the Japanese ‘hell ships.’ The latter book was selected for the Bataan Memorial Museum library in Santa Fe, N.M. His 1987 book, Guest of the Emperor, is the story of former prisoner ofwar Corporal Frank O. His first book, Rendezvous With Hell, published in 1963, is about the Korean War, including the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul, and the Chosin Reservoir campaign. Little did he realize that five years later he would be back in combat as a platoon sergeant in a Marine rifle company–shivering in the subzero cold of North Korea.īergee has written two books. He arrived back in the United States on December 13, 1945, and reached his home in Iowa on Christmas Eve, with the temperature hovering at 34 degrees below zero. Marine Lee Bergee served in the steaming jungles of the Philippines and was wounded during that campaign. Marine Lee Bergee - Chosin Reservoir Battle Survivor and Author Closeĭuring World War II, U.S.
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