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Pork Chop Hill

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S. L. A. Marshall

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a military journalist and historian from Catskill, New York. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I before becoming a journalist, specializing in military affairs. In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and served in the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He retired in 1960 but acted as an unofficial advisor and historian during the Vietnam War. Marshall wrote over 30 books, his most famous being Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command.

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Compared to Gettysburg or the Ardennes, the battle for Pork Chop Hill is hardly more than a skirmish. But to the men of the 7th Infantry Division, it contained all the heroism and sacrifice which characterized the bloody mountain fighting of the Korean War. The action began on April 16, 1953 and lasted 48 hours. Faced with human wave attacks by a determined and skillful Red Chinese force many times its size, the defenders fought a brutal hand to hand battle. The enemy controlled the high ground, artillery fire rained on the reserve forces, and it was only exceptional courage which held the line.

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