Lost Battalion (Europe, World War II)

"The Lost Battalion" refers to the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, originally a Texas National Guard unit, which was surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains on 24 October 1944 as part of the wider Battle of the Vosges. == Battle == Against the advice of his senior officers, Major General John E. Dahlquist committed the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry, to the engagement.

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