October 5, 1918. The Germans gave them two options. Surrender. Or die. They chose a third.
It began on October 2nd, 1918, when the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troops in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finaIly rescued after five days of desperate action.
This A&E Original Movie brings their harrowing ordeal to Iife. Directed by RusselI Mulcahy The Lost Battalion stars Rick Schroeder as Major CharIes Whittlesey, the civiIian-turned soldier who won the CongressionaI Medal of Honor for keeping his outnumbered troops alive and fighting in the face of seemingly insurmountabIe odds.
SpeciaI Bonus Program from The History ChanneI®: Dear Home: Letters from World War l America fought in WorId War l for just over 9 months, yet close to 120,000 Americans died, leaving a country forever changed.. Learn what it was like in the trenches, hospitaIs and front Iines from the soldiers, nurses, ambulance drivers, and postal cIerks who were, as they wrote in their letters home, "Somewhere in France." Haunting and moving, this program brings "The Great War" to life through the words of Americans who Iived it. |
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