Plan to Cut Off Communists--Initial Marine Objectives Secured--MAG-12 Moves to K-46 at Hoengsong--Fight of the 5th Marines for Hill 610--1st MAW in Operation STRANGLE--KMC Regiment Launches Night Attack--1st Marines Move up to BROWN Line--7th Marines Committed to Attack VIII The Truce Talks at Kaesong 153 Communists Ask for Truce Talks--Patrol Bases on BADGER Line--Red Herrings at Kaesong--1st Marine Division in Reserve--Marine Helicopters Take the Lead--Marine Body Armor Tested in Korea--MAG-12 Moves to K-18--The Division Back in Action Again IX Renewal of the Attack 173 Crossing the Soyang in Flood--Light Resistance at First--Supply Problems Cause Delay--Resumption of Division Attack--The Mounting Problem of CAS--First Helicopter Supply Operation of History--The Fight for Hill 749--5th Marines Attack Hill 812--The Struggle for the “Rock” X The New Warfare of Position 199 Sectors of Major EUSAK Units--Statement by General Van Fleet--Hill 854 Secured by 3/1--Helicopter Troop Lift to Hill 884--Helicopter Operation BLACKBIRD--“To Organize, Construct, and Defend”--Marine Operations of November 1951--The Second Marine Christmas in Korea XI Winter Operations in East Korea 227 Ambush Patrol on New Year’s Eve--Marine Raid in Company Strength--Major General John T. Selden Assumes Command--Boot, Combat, Rubber, Insulated--500 Armored Vests Flown to Korea--Helicopter Operations MULE TRAIN and CHANGIE-CHANGIE--The Five Days of Operation CLAM-UP XII The Move to West Korea 247 Truce Talks--Tactical Innovations--The Marines in Operation MIXMASTER--Operations of Fifteen Months in Retrospect Appendixes A Glossary of Technical Terms and Abbreviations 263 B Effective Strength of 1st Marine Division 267 C Command and Staff List 269 D Unit Citations 315 Bibliography 319 Index 325 Illustrations _Photographs_ Sixteen-page sections of photographs following pages 86 and 214. _Maps and Sketches_ _Page_ 1 Korea as a Battlefield 4 2 EUSAK Dispositions, December 1950 9 3 Combat Air Bases 16