When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.
Did this really happen? When i try to search this online i dont find anything but this same block of text with slight variations on different websites.
I tried searching here as well but found nothing
Anyone know? is that info all there is about it, or was there a name for this battle?
Did this really happen? When i try to search this online i dont find anything but this same block of text with slight variations on different websites.
I tried searching here as well but found nothing
Anyone know? is that info all there is about it, or was there a name for this battle?