Eric Hammel’s classic on the Korean War, The Frozen Choson, discussed how the poorly armed and ill- equipped PLA literally froze in place during Choson Reservoir campaign of the winter of 1950. Although this seems hard to comprehend, Ha Jin’s War Trash also talks about the freezing [ -40F] conditions and the ice statues. The statues were PLA soldiers and comrades of one of the POWs who recalls his experiences in January 1951 in the Choson region.
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