The Lost Battalion is a 2001 American war drama television film about the US 77th Division's Lost Battalion during World War I, which was cut off and surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest
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George G. McMurtry
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George Gibson McMurtry was a United States Army officer, a Medal of Honor recipient and a Harvard-educated Wall Street lawyer.
The Lost Battalion (2001 film)
…men, largely immigrants and poor working class men from the Lower East Side of New York City, to be "acceptable losses". Whittlesey's officers include Captain George McMurty, a veteran of the Rough Riders, and James Leak, an inexperienced lieutenant from Texas. Whittlesey's battalion fights through the German line, expecting…
Medal of Honor recipient
Bayview, a cottage in Bar Harbor, Maine, which McMurtry owned.
Monument to the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest, France.
Medal of Honor Presentation Ceremony - February 9, 1919, at Chaumont, France. General John J. Pershing presided.