The Lost Battalion is the name given to the nine companies of the US 77th Division, roughly 554 men, isolated by German forces during World War I after an American attack in the Argonne Forest in Octo
Monument to the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest, France
Members of the "Lost Battalion" in late October 1918 near Apremont.
General Robert Alexander studying reconnaissance data with his aides near Varennes-en-Argonne in October 1918.
Major Whittlesey (right) talking to Major Kenny, 307th Infantry, after the battle. Kenny's 3rd battalion took part in the relief attempts for the "Lost Battalion".
Erwin Russell Bleckley was a United States Army aviator during World War I, and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action on October 6, 1918, near the "lost battalion". Bleckley ent
Erwin Bleckley after joining the Kansas National Guard
Second Lt. Erwin R. Bleckley, a U.S. Army Air Service observer
Lt. Erwin Bleckley exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force