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Eighth Army's withdrawal from the Ch'ongch'on led to one of the greatest ordeals ever suffered by a U.S. division. Chinese forces established a strong roadblock below the town of Kunu-ri and took positions on the hills along the road on which the 2d Infantry Division was moving. Already weakened by several days of combat in bitter cold weather, on November 30 most of the division literally had to run a gauntlet of fire that tore units apart. Emerging from the gauntlet with about one-third of its men dead, wounded, or missing and most of its equipment lost, the division staggered back into South Korea to refit.
Convoy from Wonsan to Hamhung, Robert Weldy Baer, 1950