U.S. Marines watch F4U Corsairs drop napalm on Chinese positions during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. 1950.
7d 19h ago by lemmy.world/u/setsneedtofeed in historyphotos@piefed.social
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
On 27 November 1950, the Chinese force surprised the US X Corps. Between 27 November and 13 December 30,000 United Nations Command troops, later nicknamed "The Chosin Few", under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by about 120,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shilun, who had been ordered by Mao Zedong to destroy the UN forces.
In the ensuing 17-day battle in freezing weather that followed, the UN forces were able to break out of the encirclement and withdraw to the port of Hungnam in what U.S. historians described as the "greatest evacuation movement by sea in U.S. military history". Both sides suffered severe casualties, with battle casualties and non-battle casualties caused by the frigid weather.
Battle of Lake Changjin you mean
Chosin is what the troops in the photo would have known it as, and what it is known as among their organizations.
Abhorrent and inhumane actions explained as self defence.
In other words, war.