Retreat, hell!

June 25, 1950 - North Korean troops crossed the Thirthy-Eighth Parallel into south Korea. Within ninety days, the United States had assembled the 1st Marine Division - for Korea and all-out war. Young kids and retreads from World War II, they stormed the beach at Inchon and pushed back the North Korean People's Army. One of history's great feats of arms had begun. Charged with seizing the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, they advanced through treacherous mountain passes - into the teeth of seven well-armed Chinese regiments. Surrounded by an enemy that wasn't supposed to be there and savaged by brutal Arctic days, striking back with rifles, machine guns, grenades, bayonets, and everything they had in the most violent small-unit fighting in the history of the American warfare. In their own world, here are the never-before-told stories of the 1st Marines - their heroic fight through enemy forces to the Sea of Japan - bringing with them most of their dead and all of their wounded - and their incredible triumph of courage, sacrifice and valor.