Pork Chop Hill
For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
Plot
In April 1953, during the Korean War, K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, under the command of Lieutenant Joe Clemons, is assigned to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Chinese People's Volunteer Army force. Clemons leads 2nd Platoon, while putting his friend and Executive Officer, Lieutenant Tsugio Ohashi in charge of 1st Platoon, while 3rd Platoon is kept as a reserve. They succeed in taking the hill, trench by trench, but at the cost of high casualties. Clemons is promised another company as reinforcements, but L Company is ambushed, and only about a dozen infantrymen reach him. They prepare for a large-scale PVA counterattack, with only 25 men left out of the whole company.
More details
| author | James R. Webb |
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| contentLocation | South Korea |
| director | Lewis Milestone |
| editor | George Boemler |
| events | Korean War |
| keywords | 31st infantry regiment 7th infantry division ambush cease-fire negotiations chinese people's volunteer army executive officer joe clemons joseph g. clemons korean armistice agreement panmunjeom pork chop |
| musicBy | Leonard Rosenman |
| producer | Sy Bartlett |
| productionCompany | Melville Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | epic war |