On November 28, 1950, Hector Cafferata was asleep in his sleeping bag in a mountainous area near the infamous Chosin Reservoir in Korea. The ground was frozen too hard to dig foxholes, so he and his fellow Marines simply covered themselves in tree branches to afford some modest degree of cover. At around 0130 Cafferata was shocked awake by small arms fire nearby.
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