A historian and a film scholar provided commentary for a 1919 silent film about a World War I battle in France during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The “Lost Battalion” was an Army unit of about 550 men on the Western Front who ran out of water, food, and ammunition after they were surrounded by German forces for seven days in October, 1918.
From: American History TV, first aired by C-SPAN 3 on September 29, 2018.
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