National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH.
Veterans Museum at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
VMI Museum, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, PERSONAL PAPERS, AND ORAL HISTORIES
Almond, General Edward. Collection. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA.
Battle of Chosin Archive. Full interview transcripts collected for the PBS program “The Battle of Chosin,” American Experience, WGBH, Boston.
Duncan, David Douglas. Archive. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Faith, Colonel Don Carlos. Personal Papers. Baton Rouge, LA.
Higgins, Marguerite. Papers. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Polk, Lt. Col. James H. Korean War Letters. Private collection. Santa Fe, NM.
Smith, General Oliver Prince. Collection. Marine Corps History Division, Archives Branch, Quantico, VA.
Yancey Collection. MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Little Rock, AR.
Yancey, John. Personal Papers. Courtesy of the Yancey Family, Little Rock, AR.
SELECTED WEBSITES AND DATABASES
Chosin Reservoir: Lest We Forget. http://www.chosinreservoir.com
Congressional Medal of Honor Society. http://www.cmohs.org
Korean War Educator. http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/chosin
Korean War Project. https://www.koreanwar.org
United States Army in the Korean War. https://www.army.mil/koreanwar
VETERANS GROUP REUNIONS ATTENDED
Chosin Few National Reunion. San Diego, CA, August 2016.
Reunion of 41 Independent Commando, the Royal Marines. London, September 2015.
U.S. Army Chapter of the Chosin Few. Springfield, MO, April 2016.
VETERANS’ PUBLICATIONS AND MILITARY PAMPHLETS
Alexander, Col. Joseph H. Battle of the Barricades: U.S. Marines in the Recapture of Seoul. Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 2000.
The Chosin Few. Official news digest of the Chosin Few, Exclusive Fraternity of Honor.
Condon, Major General John P. Corsairs to Panthers: U.S. Marine Aviation in Korea. Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 2002.
The Fight to Save Fox Company. Marine Corps League, Summer 2000.
The Graybeards. Official publication of the Korean War Veterans Association.
Leatherneck. Magazine of the Marines.
MacDonald, James Angus, Jr. “The Problems of U.S. Marine Corps Prisoners of War in Korea.” Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1988.
O’Brien, Cyril J. Simmons, Brigadier General Edwin H. Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir. Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 2002.
The Reservoir. Newsletter of the Chosin Few, New England chapter.
Simmons, Brigadier General Edwin H. Over the Seawall: U.S. Marines at Inchon. Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 2000.
“Story About God’s Miracle During the Korean War: The Heungnam Evacuation Operation, December of 1950.” Heungnam Evacuation Operation Commemoration Committee. May 27, 2005.
Thomas, Lt. Col. Peter. 41 Independent Commando RM, Korea 1950–1952. Royal Marines Historical Society, Special Publication No. 8, 1985.
DOCUMENTARIES
Battle for Korea. Produced by Malin Film and Television in association with PBS, 2001.
The Battle of Chosin. Directed by Randall MacLowry and produced by the Film Posse for American Experience, WGBH, Boston, 2016.
Chosin. Directed by Brian Iglesias. Produced by Veterans Inc. in association with Post Factory NY Films, 2010.
Korea: The Forgotten War. Produced by A&E Television Networks for the History Channel, 1987.
The Korean War. 60th Anniversary Commemorative Documentary Collection. Mill Creek Entertainment, 2013.
The Korean War: Fire and Ice. Lou Reda Productions, 2010.
Task Force Faith: The Story of the 31st Regimental Combat Team. Produced and directed by Julie Precious, 2013.
Uncommon Courage: Breakout from Chosin. Produced by KPI Television for the Smithsonian Channel, 2010.
SELECTED MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Bell, James. “The Brave Men of No Name Ridge.” Life, August 28, 1950.
Chandler, Lt. Col. James B. “A Letter Home.” Marine Corps Gazette, March 1988.
Geer, Colonel Andrew. “Breakout!” American Weekly, December 1, 1957.
“General O. P. Smith, U.S.M.C.: By Land, Sea, and Air.” Time, September 25, 1950.
Hersey, John. “Mr. President.” New Yorker, May 5, 1951.
Higgins, Marguerite. “The Bloody Trail Back.” Saturday Evening Post, January 27, 1951.
Jaskilka, General Samuel. “Then and Now: Easy Alley.” Leatherneck, November 1990.
Keene, R. R. “The Division Breaks Out.” Leatherneck, December 1990.
Kerr, Frank. “At the Reservoir: Through the Eyes of a Combat Photographer.” Leatherneck, December 1990.
Morgan, Martin K. A. “When the Deer Come Running.” American Rifleman, February 2016.
Moskin, J. Robert. “Chosin.” American Heritage, November 2000.
“Now It Can Be Told: What Happened in Korea When Chinese Marched In. Interview with Lieut. Gen. E. M. Almond.” U.S. News & World Report, February 13, 1953.
O’Neill, Tom. “Dangerous Divide.” National Geographic, July 2003.
Smith, Oliver Prince. “Looking Back at Chosin.” Marine Corps Gazette, November 2000.
“There Was a Christmas in Korea.” Life, December 25, 1950.
Wallace, James. “Bloody Chosin: The Blind Lead the Brave.” U.S. News & World Report, June 25, 1990.
BOOKS
Acheson, Dean. The Korean War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
———. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
Appleman, Roy E. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.
———. Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990.
———. United States Army in the Korean War, vol. 2: South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1961.
Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan’s Biological Warfare Program. New York: HarperPerennial, 2005.
Bartlett, Merrill L., and Jack Sweetman. Leathernecks: An Illustrated History of the United States Marine Corps. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
———. The U.S. Marine Corps: An Illustrated History. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bernstein, Richard. China 1945: Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice. New York: Vintage, 2014.
Berry, Henry. Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? Living Memories of the U.S. Marines in the Korean War. New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.
Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950–1953. New York: Anchor, 1987.
Brady, James. The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War. New York: Thomas Dunne
, 2000.
Brands, H. W. The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War. New York: Doubleday, 2016.
Cha, Victor. The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.
Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Chapman, Franklin “Jack.” Cherokee Warrior. A copyrighted memoir published on the Korean War Educator website: http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/memoirs/chapman_franklin_jack. December 2014.
Choe, Sang-Hung, and Christopher Torchia. How Koreans Talk: A Collection of Expressions. Seoul: EunHaeng Namu, 2002.
Chung, Donald K., M.D. The Three Day Promise: A Korean Soldier’s Memoir. Tallahassee, FL: Father & Son, 1989.
Clark, Commander Eugene Franklin. The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War. New York: Berkley, 2002.
Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Oxford, UK: Osprey, 2016.
Coggins, Jack. Soldiers and Warriors: An Illustrated History. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1966.
Connor, John W. Let Slip the Dogs of War: A Memoir of the GHQ 1st Raider Company (8245th Army Unit) a.k.a. Special Operations Company, Korea 1950–51. Bennington, VT: Merriam Press, 2008.
Cook, Fred J. The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy. New York: Random House, 1971.
Coye, Molly Joel, Jon Livingston, and Jean Highland, eds. China: Yesterday and Today. New York: Bantam, 1975.
Crumbie, SSgt. Watson A., Jr. My Time As a Marine, 1943–1952. Privately published.
Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War. New York: Modern Library, 2010.
Davis, Burke. Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller. New York: Bantam, 1962.
Davis, Ray. The Story of Ray Davis. Varina, NC: Research Triangle Publishing, 1995.
Domes, Jürgen. Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Donovan, Robert J. The Assassins. London: Elek Books, 1956.
———. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
———. Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.
Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Drury, Bob, and Tom Clavin. The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat. New York: Grove, 2009.
Duncan, David Douglas. My 20th Century. New York: Arcade, 2014.
———. This Is War! A Photo-Narrative of the Korean War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.
Fehrenbach, T. R. This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1963.
Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Geer, Andrew. The New Breed: The Story of the U.S. Marines in Korea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
Gilbert, Bill. Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage. Chicago: Triumph, 2000.
Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Goulden, Joseph C. Korea: The Untold Story of the War. New York: Times Books, 1982.
Gray, John Edward. Called to Honor: Memoirs of a Three-War Veteran. Asheville, NC: R. Brent, 2006.
Griffin, W. E. B. Retreat, Hell! A Novel of the Corps. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004.
Gunther, John. The Riddle of MacArthur: Japan, Korea and the Far East. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
Haig, Alexander M., with Charles McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World. New York: Warner, 1992.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion, 2007.
Hammel, Eric. Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 1981.
Harden, Blaine. The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea. New York: Penguin, 2015.
———. King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea. New York: Viking, 2017.
Harper, Merrill. Chosin Reservoir: As I Remember Koto-ri Pass, North Korea, December 1950. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2012.
Hastings, Max. The Korean War. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1987.
Hayhurst, Fred. Green Berets in Korea: The Story of 41 Independent Commando Royal Marines. Cambridge, UK: Vanguard Press, 2001.
Haynes, Major Justin M. Intelligence Failure in Korea: Major General Charles A. Willoughby’s Role in the United Nations Command’s Defeat in November, 1950. New York: Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015.
Heinl, Robert Debs. Soldiers of the Sea: The United States Marine Corps, 1775–1962. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1991.
———. Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1979.
Hersey, John. Aspects of the Presidency. New Haven, CT: Ticknor & Fields, 1980.
Hicks, George. The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Higgins, Marguerite. War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951.
Hoffman, Jon T. Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. New York: Random House, 2001.
Hopkins, William B. One Bugle, No Drums: The Marines at Chosin Reservoir. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1986.
Hunt, George P. The Story of the U.S. Marines. New York: Random House, 1951.
Hunter, Stephen, and John Bainbridge. American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman—and the Shoot-out That Stopped It. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Jacobs, Bruce. Korea’s Heroes: The Medal of Honor Story. New York: Berkley, 1961.
Jacobs, Ralph. Cord-Wood: A Collection of Korean War Poems. Self-published, 2004.
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur, vol. 3: Triumph & Disaster, 1945–1964. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Janca, Richard A. The Relic: A Marine’s Memoir of the Korean War. Palm Beach Gardens, FL: Marquesas, 2012.
Jeon, Kyung-Ae. The Dandelion Ranch. Seoul: Korea Herald Inc., 2000.
Jian, Chen. China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
———. Mao’s China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Jin, Ha. War Trash. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2012.
Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Khlevniuk, Oleg V. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
Kim Il Sung. The Selected Works of Kim Il Sung. New York: Prism Key Press, 2011.
Klara, Robert. The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013.
Knox, Donald. The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Krulak, Victor H. First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
La Bree
, Clifton. The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001.
Langley, Michael. Inchon Landing: MacArthur’s Last Triumph. New York: Times Books, 1979.
Leckie, Robert. March to Glory. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Lewis, Jack. Chosen Tales of Chosin. North Hollywood, CA: Challenge, 1964.
Li, Xiaobing. A History of the Modern Chinese Army. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
———. They Came in Waves: The Chinese Attack at Chosin. Unpublished manuscript, December 2017, submitted to University of Oklahoma Press.
Li, Xiaobing, Allan R. Millett, and Bin Yu, eds. Mao’s Generals Remember Korea. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Li Zhisui. The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician. New York: Random House, 1994.
MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Maffioli, Len, and Bruce H. Norton. Grown Gray in War: From Iwo Jima to the Chosin Reservoir to the Tet Offensive, the Autobiography of a True Marine Hero. San Diego: Quadrant, 1997.
Makos, Adam. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice. New York: Ballantine, 2015.
Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Mao Tse-tung. On Guerrilla Warfare. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1961.
———. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.
———. Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967.
Marshall, S. L. A. The River and the Gauntlet. Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1962.
Martin, Bradley K. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2004.
May, Antoinette. Witness to War. New York: Penguin, 1983.
McCloskey, Pete. A Year in a Marine Rifle Company: Korea, 1950–51. Sunnyvale, CA: Patsons Press, 2013.
———. The Taking of Hill 610. Woodside, CA: Eaglet, 1992.
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