As you can see snow covered the narrow road to a depth of about a foot and the road was very icy. About 3 miles later my truck with me driving slipped off the road even with chains on all four wheels. The right wheels caught the edge of the road and I knew it was all over. I yelled to the eight men riding on the truck to jump to safety and they did while I kept the truck clawing to the edge. Eventually the truck turned over with me hanging on to the steering wheel all the way. As the truck turned over I rotated so when it fell down I was sitting upright. I was not hurt as the load on the truck and trailer kept me from being crushed.

We quickly unloaded the other truck, poured gasoline over all of the equipment, put grenades on the pile and set it on fire and left on the remaining truck. Eventually we made the main highway and joined the marine convoy heading south to Hamhung/Hungnam and to safety. The weather was about 20 below zero and the trip took two days. My hands and feet were frostbitten. We were all exhausted when we arrived. A week later they assigned me a new truck.