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The Lost Battalion is the name given to the nine companies of the US 77th Division, roughly 554 men, isolated by German forces during World War I after an American attack in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
Jul 21, 2017 · As we commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I, let’s take a look at the heroic actions of a particular group of American forces during the Great War: the courageous soldiers of the “Lost Battalion” and their actions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in late 1918.
Oct 7, 2018 · Yet the monumental struggle of the Lost Battalion — their deprivation, neglect, and heroic sacrifice that changed the outcome of the war — has almost faded from our collective memory.
Lines of drab-uniformed soldiers emerged from their night march and moved down a forested road into open country on September 26, 1918. Shell craters dotted the landscape amid splintered trees. The ground shook slightly from the impact of distant artillery.
Nov 26, 2021 · Sometime during the night of November 26, 1921, three years after his actions that earned him the Medal of Honor, Charles W. Whittlesey jumped into the sea between the U.S. and Cuba. It is believed that the demons that followed him after the war caught up with him.
Aug 29, 2017 · The plight of the Lost Battalion is one of the most famous incidents of America’s involvement in World War I. For six harrowing days in early October 1918 seven companies from the 307th and 308th Infantry regiments and two companies from the 306th Machine Gun Battalion were cut off and surrounded by the Germans deep in the Argonne ...
The Lost Battalion is the name given to a group of U.S. Army units of the 77th Division that fought together in France during World War I. The soldiers were not lost but were cut off from the main body of the U.S. troops after the Germans surrounded them on October 2–7, 1918.
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