In the Chosin Reservoir, what did the Marines do to get their weapons to unfreeze?

Question

Temperatures were way below zero, weapons would freeze up

Answer 1

the Marines, and US army and the 41 Independent Commando Royal Marines, besides elements of other country's armys under the United Nations Flag.

Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, large numbers of Chinese soldiers swept across the Yalu River, encircling the United Nations (UN) troops in the northeastern part of North Korea at the Chosin Reservoir. A brutal battle in freezing weather followed. Although they inflicted enormous casualties on the Chinese forces, the UN troops were forced to evacuate North Korea after they withdrew from the reservoir to the port of Hungnam.

The X Corps — commanded by controversial Major General Ned Almond, U.S. Army — was widely spread out over northeastern Korea, its units far apart and out of supporting distance from each other. The X Corps troops at Changjin, mainly the U.S. 1st Marine Division, elements of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, and 41 Independent Commando Royal Marines were, by late November, surrounded by units of the Ninth Army Group of the People's Liberation Army (referred hereafter as Chinese Communist Forces, or CCF). The Chinese launched heavy assaults that halted the UN offensive. MacArthur and Almond ordered Major General O.P. Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division and associated forces in the Chosin area to fight his way out of the trap. Starting on November 26, 1950, the UN troops began a fighting withdrawal to the south, towards Hungnam.

Keeping his units concentrated and moving deliberately, Smith made an aggressive assault to break out of the reservoir. When asked if the Marines were retreating, Smith explained that their fighting withdrawal through Chinese lines did not constitute a retreat. His explanation was abbreviated into the famous misquote, "Retreat? h**l, we're attacking in a different direction!" (recalling the famous quote from Captain Lloyd W. Williams in the Battle of Belleau Wood during the First World War, "Retreat? h**l, we just got here!").

Answer 2

I don't know what your talking about but I guess pee on them.

Answer 3

probably sit on them, the body heat would warm the barrels up and allow the pins inside to move

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Answer 4

Weapons freeze if they get wet, or you use too much oil, which becomes heavy like thick grease and stops it.  They would just clean them, and use little or no oil.

  When it is well below freezing out, there is usually no flowing water to get them wet- they just have to keep the oil light.

Answer 5

p**s on them?