World War I October 1918 The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank are sent to France to help ...

Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the ...

“It was a station of the Lost Battalion.” Gerome says in the fall of 1944, 220 men – a unit that trained in Camp Bowie – found themselves surrounded by an enormous German force on this ...

Erwin R. Bleckley, earning the honor during one of the most dramatic battles fought within the Argonne Campaign: that involving the “Lost Battalion.” Harold Ernest Goettler was born in Chicago ...

Rachel Fedde, editor of Part 3 of The Great War, shares how she selected images, footage, and an interview with Robert Laplander, a self-made expert on the Lost Battalion, to convey the ...