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Lieutenant Colonel Faith led "Task Force Faith" through five-days of heroism resistance during enemy attacks on the Chosin Reservoir. When the enemy penetrated his positions, Faith personally led counterattacks to restore them. During one attack to join another U.S. unit, he reconnoitered the route and personally directed the first elements of his command across the ice-covered reservoir and then directed the movement of his vehicles which were loaded with wounded until all of his command had passed through the enemy fire. This done he crossed the reservoir himself. Although exhausted in the bitter cold, he organized and launched an attack which was soon stopped by enemy fire. He ran forward under enemy fire, got his men on their feet and personally led the attack as it blasted its way through the enemy ring. When they came to a hairpin curve, enemy fire from a roadblock again pinned the column down. Lieutenant Colonel Faith organized a group of men and directed their attack on the enemy positions on the right flank. He placed himself at the head of another group of men and in the face of enemy fire led an attack on the roadblock, firing his pistol and throwing grenades until he was mortally wounded.
The son of a retired Army brigadier general, Don Faith enlisted in the Army after graduating from Georgetown University in 1941. With an O.C.S. commission, he served with paratroopers in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, ending the war as a Lieutenant Colonel on the Staff of General Maxwell Taylor.
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