A great deal of intermingling of units was observed by the 1/1 commander. At 0300, after sighting the lights of the tanks, he gave orders for Able Company to commence the withdrawal, in order “to consolidate my battalion for the rear guard action prior to daybreak.... When the first tanks reached my position, I was first startled to find no 2/31 accompanying them and then flabbergasted to discover that the Recon Company was somewhere out there ‘screening’ the movement. This canceled my carefully laid covering plan.”[623] [623] Schmuck Comments. No further trouble resulted for the tanks and Recon Company. Ahead of them the infantry units continued the movement southward from Chinhung-ni chiefly by marching because of the shortage of trucks. Lieutenant Colonel Sutter’s men proved that footslogging is not a lost art by covering the 22 miles from Koto-ri to Majon-dong in a 20-hour hike with packs, heavy parkas, individual weapons and sleeping bags.[624] [624] LtCol Sutter interv, 8 Aug 56. Battle casualties of the division for the final stage, the attack from Koto-ri southward, were as follows: ------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------------ Date | KIA | DOW | MIA | WIA | Totals[625] ------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------------ 8 Dec | 29 | 8 | 4 | 127 | 168 9 Dec | 6 | 7 | 1 | 46 | 60 10 Dec | 7 | 5 | 8 | 45 | 65 11 Dec | 9 | 4 | 3 | 38 | 54 ------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------------ Totals | 51 | 24 | 16 | 256 | 347 ------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------------ [625] DivAdjutant _SAR_, appendix II, 3. At 1300 on 11 December the last elements of the Division cleared Chinhung-ni. Majon-dong had been left behind at 1730 without audible regrets; and by 2100 all units, with the exception of the tanks, had reached assigned assembly areas in the Hamhung-Hungnam area. The armored column arrived at the LST staging area of Hungnam half an hour before midnight, thus bringing to an end the breakout of the 1st Marine Division.[626] [626] Smith, _Notes_, 1091. CHAPTER XV The Hungnam Redeployment _Marines Billeted in Hungnam Area--Embarkation of 1st Marine Division--The Last Ten Days at Hungnam--Marines Arrive at New Assembly Area--Contributions of Marine Aviation--Losses Sustained by the Enemy--Results of the Reservoir Campaign_ “Wave and look happy!” These were the first words to greet some of the weary, unshaven Marines upon arrival in the Hamhung-Hungnam area. They grinned obligingly in response to the press photographers snapping pictures of the motor column from the roadside. They were happy indeed to be back in a world of hot meals and hot baths. They were happy to be alive.