Lost Battalion
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Oct 8, 2026
BeauHOST
All right.
BeauHOST
Acid Helm again says, "On the 8th of October 1918, uh, the American Lost Battalion was rescued after six days surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest.
BeauHOST
Of roughly 550 soldiers, fewer than 200 emerged unharmed".
BeauHOST
Yeah, that's another classic story.
BeauHOST
Brilliant, fascinating story, sad story of the American exploits in, um, World War I, right at the end of World War I.
BeauHOST
The Lost Battalion, of course, wasn't entirely lost, just as Acid Helm tells us there.
BeauHOST
But, um, yeah, all sorts of stuff.
BeauHOST
Belleau Wood, all sorts of stuff the Americans did right at the end of, of World War I.
HarryPRODUCER
All right, the acid helm again
BeauHOST
says, on the 8th of October 1918, the American Lost Battalion was rescued after six days surrounded by German forces in the Argonne Forest.
BeauHOST
Of roughly 550 soldiers, fewer than 200 emerged unharmed.
BeauHOST
Yeah, that's another classic story.
BeauHOST
Brilliant, fascinating story.
BeauHOST
Sad story of the American exploits in World War I, right at the end of World War I. the lost battalion of course wasn't entirely lost just as acid helm tells us there um yeah all sorts of stuff bellow wood all sorts of stuff the americans did right at the end of world war one fascinating fascinating stuff all right the next one last one from acid helm says on this day in 451 a.d the fourth ecumenical council began at calcedon near Istanbul or Constantinople, Chalcedon, isn't that just on the other side of the Bosphorus? So right there still in Byzantium.
BeauHOST
Around 500 bishops gathered to settle a major theological dispute affirming that Jesus Christ is both fully divine and fully human.
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Tom HoffGUEST
On the far left of the Americans where 3rd Corps had been moving, it had been 35th Division, 77th Division, and 28th Division.
Tom HoffGUEST
We're going to have a lot of the drama of the wars that take place within the 77th Division as the Lost Battalion incident happens with the 308th Infantry.
Aaron TarlowHOST
Tell me about that.
Tom HoffGUEST
This is really kind of an interesting thing.
Tom HoffGUEST
Then...
Tom HoffGUEST
They go pushing forward again, and Wittlesley, I wish Rob Laplander was here to talk about it.
Tom HoffGUEST
He's probably the best historian on the Lost Battalion that ever walked the face of the earth.
Tom HoffGUEST
Maybe a future guest.
John BatchelorHOST
the farther you are from resupply, from shells, from tanks, from communication.
John BatchelorHOST
This is the moment when Nick tells the story of the lost battalion.
John BatchelorHOST
And I want to emphasize this, Nick, because it's a legend here in America, the 308th Infantry of the 77th Division, Liberty Division.
John BatchelorHOST
They get lost in the woods.
John BatchelorHOST
Was it celebrated at the time or was it considered a reversal, a defeat?
Nick LloydGUEST
Well, I think at the time, pretty soon afterwards, it gets a sort of currency that something happened here that was worthy of commemoration or in some cases celebration.
Nick LloydGUEST
Some officers at the time complained that the idea of a lost battalion wasn't correct.
Nick LloydGUEST
It wasn't a battalion.
John BatchelorHOST
and meet the Germans at their best.
John BatchelorHOST
Barbed wire, machine gun positions, and the famous Lost Battalion.
John BatchelorHOST
Hundred Days is the book, the campaign that ended World War I. Nick Lloyd is the author.
John BatchelorHOST
I'm John Batchelor.