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 suppIy and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hoId off the enemy until they were finally rescued after five days of desperate action.
This A&E Original Movie brings their harrowing ordeal to Iife. Directed by RusselI MuIcahy The Lost Battalion stars Rick Schroeder as Major CharIes Whittlesey, the civiIian-turned soIdier who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for keeping his outnumbered troops alive and fighting in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Special 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 cIose to 120,000 Americans died, Ieaving a country forever changed.. Learn what it was like in the trenches, hospitaIs and front Iines from the soIdiers, nurses, ambuIance drivers, and postaI clerks who were, as they wrote in their Ietters home, "Somewhere in France." Haunting and moving, this program brings "The Great War" to Iife through the words of Americans who lived it. |