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While universally known as the "Lost Battalion", this force actually consisted of companies from 4 different battalions – A, B, C Companies of the 1st Battalion 308th Infantry Regiment (1-308th Inf); E,G, H companies of the 2nd Battalion 308th Infantry (2-308th Inf); K Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 307th Infantry Regiment (3-307th Inf); and C, D Companies of the 306th Machine Gun ...
Kenny's battalion took part in "Lost Battalion" relief attempts. By September 1917 Whittlesey was promoted to major and placed in command of a battalion. On the morning of October 2, 1918, the 77th Division was ordered to move forward against a heavily fortified German line as part of a massive American attack in the Meuse-Argonne region.
Four members of the regiment were awarded the Medal of Honor for their service during the First World War. Three of these men, Major Charles W. Whittlesey, Captain Nelson Holderman, and Captain George G. McMurtry, were recognized for their actions during the "Lost Battalion" period while in command of the units trapped in the ravine.
Lost Battalion may refer to: Lost Battalion (World War I), American units which were isolated by Germans in 1918; Lost Battalion (Europe, World War II), an American battalion which was surrounded by Germans in 1944; Lost Battalion (Pacific, World War II), an American battalion and survivors from a ship's crew taken prisoner early in the Pacific War
From the headquarters of the 77th Division in France, Alexander was one of the officers who reported on the Lost Battalion incident. A group of around 500 soldiers, in nine companies, had disappeared after going into the Argonne Forest expecting American and French Allied troops to meet them.
It’s been more than 100 years since Wichitan Erwin Bleckley gave his life trying to help his fellow soldiers. Now a group of local veterans are working to make sure he’s remembered.
The Battle of Beersheba (Turkish: Birüssebi Muharebesi, German: Schlacht von Beerscheba) [Note 1] was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, beginning the Southern Palestine Offensive of the Sinai and Palestine campaign 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.