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?

look for it in wikipedia. there are svveral diffrent versions to what he said, as often there are in these cases(each person there remembers it a little diffrently)

Originally Posted by Mjayet

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 US Marines made their great effort at the Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Wikipedia has a nice overview but, if you want more detail, Google "USMC Chosin Reservoir", you will get bunches of hits.
Ref;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Mar...ited_States%29

Originally Posted by Mjayet

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.

Yes, this really happened by the actual figures are off, somewhat.

The US Army 3rd Infantry Division fought there as well....just thought I would add that.

The US Marines comprised the single largest group of ground soldiers but, their were many other troops there. The USMC 1st Marine Div., United States Army 3rd Infantry Div., United States Army 7th Infantry Div., 41 Commando (Royal Marines) plus some UK armor units -in Task Force Drysdale and, South Korea Augmentation Troops -to the United States Army (KATUSA).

The PLA took a beating;
1) 40% of all Chinese forces in Korea were knocked out during the battle and were never replaced. All of them were elite formations. (As indicated in the background and aftermath section)
2) Chinese sources, including official history have described the battle as a massive failure.
3) The success of UN counter-offensive in the spring of 1951 is directly caused by the huge Chinese losses. (Supported by both Chinese and US sources)

Ref;
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir __ "Crippling Losses"

I have checked many websites and they generally have round numbers on unit sizes and casualties (country by country) but, nothing specific.

Here are a couple of quotes of Puller at Chosin.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."

To his men: "Remember, you are the 1st Marines. Not all the Communists in Hell can overrun you."

Chesty was quite a guy, The Marine's Marine.

Heres some sites Ref:The Chosin.

http://www.marines.mil/unit/marforpa...irstories.aspx

http://homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chosin.html

http://www.chosinreservoir.com/

http://koreanwarheroes.com/freidel.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/jule3/Chosin.html

Originally Posted by RealNavy

Here are a couple of quotes of Puller at Chosin.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."

To his men: "Remember, you are the 1st Marines. Not all the Communists in Hell can overrun you."

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You can find a few more good ones from Chesty in here as well.
http://www.military-quotes.com/chesty-puller.htm

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Thank you '03USMC' for the links, the more I read of Chesty Puller the more I admire him.