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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.
Dec 2, 2001 · The Lost Battalion: Directed by Russell Mulcahy. With Ricky Schroder, Phil McKee, Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan. Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
The Lost Battalion is a 2001 American war drama television film about the US 77th Division's Lost Battalion during World War I, which was cut off and surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse–Argonne Offensive of 1918.
Oct 7, 2018 · The Lost Battalion was the first “over the top” — the first soldiers to clamber over the rim of the defensive trenches, drawing concentrated fire from the enemy.
It was a punishing campaign fought largely in autumn and winter. Cannons and machine guns froze into inoperability and sentries were frostbitten. When they were withdrawn the following July, more than 200 men were lost from combat, illness, and injury.
Aug 29, 2017 · 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 Forest of France.
