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A forward air controllrt watches anxiously for the arrival of fighter aircraft while the Marine at right cranks an electric generator to power radio. The continous close air support suplied to the 1st Marine Division by Navy and Marine pilots was a key element in its successful movement from the Chosin Reservoir to Huengnam on the Sea of Japan.
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The need to use all available space on vehicles and planes for the evacuation of wounded, plus the Jack of time to conduct individual burials, necessitated that 117 American, Korean and British fighting men be interred in a common grave scratched out of the frozen earth near a 155-min. battery at Kot'o-ri, Friday, 8 December. The remains were turned over to the UN. representatives after the 1953 cease-fire. |