UNL professor: Marine killed in Frozen Chosin battle was starving, too

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By Steve Liewer

It’s no secret soldiers and Marines who perished in the Korean War battle called “Frozen Chosin” died cold.

Now, research by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln archaeology professor who studies mummified remains tells us at least some of them died hungry.

Karl Reinhard examined a small and extremely rare chunk of coprolite — a scientific term for fossilized feces — discovered after the 2006 disinterment of a Marine Corps private first class who died during the desperate Chosin Reservoir battle in late 1950.

He and his research team found that the Marine had been eating a starvation diet of low-nutrition plants he must have foraged, including raw mustard seeds and a type of wild rose called potentilla.

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