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127-GK-234f-A4912.

After five days and nights of slugging it out with Chinese communists to return fifteen miles to Hagaru-ri, wounded Marines of the 5th and 7th Regiments find rescue at hand. So do British Royal Marines, Soldiers and Republic of Korea troops being reassembled for further withdrawal to the sea. Marine engineers had hacked out a landing strip and Air Force, Navy and Marine planes flew continual evacuation trips, taking wounded and frostbitten men to rear areas for hospitalization..NARA FILE #: 127-GK-234f-A4912..........

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Uploaded on January 16, 2016