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Siege of the Lost Battalion as World War Hero Or Myth
The 1918 Argonne rescue tale of Whittlesey and the Lost Battalion is explored in The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson and Fletcher Pratt. The article blends battlefield feats with questions of legend, propaganda, and Whittlesey’s later fate after a life shadowed by fame.
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Crerleways Valley
Argonne Forest
France
la Palette
Thomas M. Johnson
Fletcher Pratt
Bobbs Sterrill Company
Batislion
Tensarchi
Cen
Robert Alexander
Argonne
Greand
Myst
Counter Alta
Gil
Retifel
Pautiot
Charles W. Whittlesey
Three Hundred Eighth Infantry
Seventy-seventh
Briarville
Subétior
Cher Ami
Headqvarters Lot
Whittlesey
Leak
Harrington
Issiates
Signa
Ler
Hollingshead
Lath Brigade
307Th Infantry
McKinney
Pring
Alexander
McMurtry
Sey Norhing
Gotonel Whittlesey
Charles Whittlesey
Elt
United States Army Signal Corps