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Unit History

The design recalls the Chosin Reservoir campaign of November and December 1950, when Chinese forces surrounded the 1st Marine Division in North Korea and the 5th and 7th Marines fought their way out in temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees below zero.

Activated: 1 June 1917.

Key battles: Belleau Wood (World War I); the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon and Seoul (Korea, 1950); the Chosin Reservoir (Korea, 1950): attacked at Yudam-ni on the night of 27 November, back through Toktong Pass to Hagaru-ri, breakout south past Koto-ri from 6 December, Hungnam reached on 11 December; Operation Swift (Vietnam, 1967).

Name: The Marine Corps' official history of the Chosin Reservoir campaign calls the battalion "Darkhorse."

Honors: 13 Presidential Unit Citations. Sgt Lawrence Peters and Navy chaplain Lt Vincent Capodanno were killed in action during Operation Swift on 4 September 1967, and both received the Medal of Honor.

Sources: USMC History Division, Lineage and Honors of 3d Battalion, 5th Marines; 1st Marine Division, official 3/5 page; Congressional Medal of Honor Society; Naval History and Heritage Command, "Chosin Reservoir: Battle, Fighting Retreat, Evacuation"; Marine Corps University Press, Always Faithful, ch. 22.