"Of the over 500 men who entered the forest, only 194 were rescued." Another library sale find, this melancholy little curio, HISTORY AND RHYMES OF THE LOST BATTALION, from 1929, by "Buck Private" McCollum, one who lived to tell. www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/muse... #WW1 #booksky #LostBattalion

They left no man behind. Even when America did.

On October 25, 1944, the all-Japanese American 442nd RCT began the brutal rescue of the “Lost Battalion.”
They saved 211 men from Texas — at the cost of over 800 of their own.

Read here: quietamericans.com/lost-battalion

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