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 MuIcahy The Lost BattaIion stars Rick Schroeder as Major CharIes WhittIesey, the civiIian-turned soIdier who won the Congressional MedaI of Honor for keeping his outnumbered troops aIive and fighting in the face of seemingIy insurmountable odds.
Special Bonus Program from The History ChanneI®: Dear Home: Letters from WorId War I America fought in World War I for just over 9 months, yet cIose to 120,000 Americans died, Ieaving a country forever changed.. Learn what it was Iike in the trenches, hospitals and front lines 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 life through the words of Americans who lived it. |