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Lost Battalion Hero Story Shaped by Wartime Myth
The article recounts the October 1918 siege of the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest, detailing Whittlesey's leadership, the five day stand, and the rescue. It notes how myths like Go to hell spread, how the book The Lost Battalion presents new research, and how Whittlesey later ended his life after a pressured public role.
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Charlevaux Valley
Argonne Forest
France
la Palette
Thomas M. Johnson
Fletcher Pratt
Bobbs-Merrill
Reichsarcht
Potsdam
Robert Alexander
Seventy-seventh
Dvision
Argonne
Charles W. Whittlesey
Three Hundred Eighth Infantry
Briarville
Whittlesey
Cher Ami
Leak
Harrington
Lowell R. Hollingshead
Major Whittlesey
Hollingshead
154Th Brigade
307Th Infantry
McKinney
Seventy-seventh Division
Prinz
Lieut. E. Kidder Meade
First Corps
Alexander
General Alexander
Johnson
Captain McMurtry
Cable
Linotype
New England
Johnson and Pratt
Nat