The First Battalion of the 308th Infantry, the famous “Lost Battalion” of the 77th Division’s Argonne campaign of the Great War, marches up New York’s Fifth Avenue just past the Arch of Victory during the spring of 1919. [1500 x 956]
The advanced thinking their flanks were covered, but both supporting companies became stalled and they advanced ahead of friendly forces to be surround by the Germans. 197 KIA, 150 captured.
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The advanced thinking their flanks were covered, but both supporting companies became stalled and they advanced ahead of friendly forces to be surround by the Germans. 197 KIA, 150 captured.