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Lt. Chew-Een Lee, 1950

Riccoh Player reports he had the honor and pleasure of meeting 85 year old, Major Kurt Chew-Een Lee, and 1st Lt Joe Owen, author of Colder than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir, (in the background of the photo)  at a screening of the documentary, Uncommon Courage:  Breakout at Chosin, in Washington, DC, May 25th.

The film, depicts Lt. Chew-Een Lee, the first commissioned U.S. Marine regular officer of Chinese descent who battled communism, injuries, hypothermia and racism to help 8,000 U.S. Marines stave off certain capture at the hands of the enemy. Lt. Lee’s remarkable story is told in a Smithsonian Channel original special, UNCOMMON COURAGE: BREAKOUT AT CHOSIN, premiering this Memorial Day, Monday, May 31 at 8pm ET/PT

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