The Day US Engineers Built a Road Over Frozen Sea Ice — And Kept a Whole Division Alive скачать в хорошем качестве

The Day US Engineers Built a Road Over Frozen Sea Ice — And Kept a Whole Division Alive

In December 1950, deep in the frozen mountains of North Korea, thousands of U.S. Marines and soldiers from the X Corps were trapped near the Chosin Reservoir. Cut off by Chinese forces and freezing in subzero temperatures, their only escape route collapsed when the vital bridge at Funchilin Pass was destroyed. What followed became one of the greatest engineering feats in military history. American combat engineers, with the help of U.S. Air Force C-119 “Flying Boxcar” crews, air-dropped steel bridge sections into the mountains—an unprecedented act never attempted in battle before. Under enemy fire and in temperatures of minus thirty degrees Celsius, the men of the 58th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company worked through the night to rebuild the crossing. Their bridge, assembled from frozen steel and sheer willpower, allowed the 1st Marine Division and thousands of others to escape encirclement and reach the port of Hungnam. This was not just a story of survival—it was a story of human ingenuity, courage, and the power of creation in the face of destruction. The bridge at Funchilin Pass turned a doomed retreat into a legend. #KoreanWar #ChosinReservoir #USMarines #CombatEngineers #MilitaryHistory #Engineering #ColdWeatherWarfare #FunchilinPass #BridgeOfSurvival #WWIItoKorea #HistoryDocumentary Historical Sources: United States Marine Corps History Division, The Chosin Reservoir Campaign (official monograph, Washington D.C., 1957) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Operations During the Korean War (Technical Report, Office of History, 1986) Appleman, Roy E., East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (Texas A&M University Press, 1987) Simmons, Edwin H., Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir (U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center, 1990) United States Air Force Historical Research Agency, 314th Troop Carrier Group Mission Logs, December 1950 National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico — Korean War Exhibit Archives (photographs of Funchilin Pass bridge and M2 treadway sections) U.S. Army Engineer Museum, Fort Leonard Wood — archival notes on the 58th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company (1950–1951)