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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A map of North Korea showing the route Marine and Army units took to escape an attack by Chinese troops during the Korean War.

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

A map illustrates the path of United Nations troops during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Dec. 6-11, 1950. Approximately 30,000 U.N. troops began to break out of the Chosin Reservoir area in a fighting withdrawal to the Port of Hungnam on the Sea of Japan to join the U.S. Eighth Army defending the 38th parallel.

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