Historical Marker · No. 4247
Chosin Reservoir Campaign Monument (Korea)
Ogden, Weber County · Utah
In late November 1950, some thirty thousand UN troops were surrounded by roughly four times their number of Chinese soldiers in the frozen mountains around Korea's Chosin Reservoir. Over seventeen days at temperatures far below zero, they fought their way out to the sea, carrying their wounded and their dead. The survivors called themselves the Chosin Few. Ogden's monument is one of only a handful in the country that honor them — a Utah acknowledgment that one of the Korean War's fiercest battles, in a war often called forgotten, would not be forgotten here.
Where it stands
41.27735, -112.00786 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
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