'The Lost Battalion' - How 650 Americans held off the German Army (WW1 Documentary)
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 Published On Jun 20, 2024

In early October 1918 across this war-torn and shell shattered hillside in Northern France, more than 600 Doughboys of the American Expeditionary Force, surrounded and outnumbered, fought for their lives. Over more than five days they sustained relentless assaults by their German opponents who used machine guns, mortars and flamethrowers in a bid t o eradicate the ‘pocket’ that had formed in the Argonne Forest. By the time that fight was over hundreds of men lay dead and wounded across this battlefield.

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