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the autumn of 10 1018 18 have bec become em e lao so A colored with ascertain amount of I 1 notion fiction as to produce prot t another example of popular misinformation in our notional national legend the seventy seventh division ot of the notion national fil army Is known na as new forks own because its ranks were filled mainly with men who were called ao to the colors in new york city by that great human lottery the selective service act for that reason it may seem curious tata a monument umen t to the heroism of new yorkers should be erected in california clear across the continent from new york rut but tile tiie reason for the camp kearney kear P ey memorial Is this before taking over its sector for the meuse argonne offensive tho the seventy seventh wa was strengthened with replacements from the fortieth division composed of f manfrom men from all parts of the west who and ad trained at camp kearney and in the famous lost bat tallon episode cowboys from the west fought alongside of men of every occupation nationality class and creed trot from n the last beast tilde side or melting pot of drw york in regard to the which has crept into the story of the ahe lost battalion it should be noted first that the name itself Is a misnomer for the lost battalion never was lost jost led by maj charles IV whittlesey and capt george W V mcmurtry tile the battalion at tallon of something less than men men took part in an attack by the seventy seventh on tile the morning of october 2 1918 with a certa certain inroad road on the edge of a ravine in the Charle raux valley vall ey as tile objective they were acting under orders of gen robert alexander commander of the seventy seven tyse ty seventh se rent h who liter later assumed full responsibility for foe what took fook place sly orders were positive and pre precise else said general alexander the objective was to be gained without regard to losses and without regard to the exposed condition of the flunks 1 of the four battalions bat aroi the three hundred sixth three hundred hund reil seventh sey prithi tarp I 1 ili indred eighth and three ahree hundred ninth infantry which were sent into the attack from the three hundred eighth arv the only one to reach its objective As a result the enemy penetrated to the rear of their position and the battalion was waa cut off so although they we were cut off they were not lost for they knew all the time where rethey they were ere the seven seventy ty seventh division knew where they were and made repeated ed attempts during the five fire days they were beleaguered beleaguer ed to rescue them what took place during those furedi five laya s li Is told jn in entertaining fashion in a book recently published by the bobbs sierrie company it la Is with out censor written hy by thomas st johnson correspondent for the new york sun with the A E R IF ft now lt can be told book which ex diodes many popular myths about the world war nar I 1 and much new light on many disputed ques alons tl in the chapter rin finding ding the lost battalion mr johnson tells tella tile the true story of that famous incident in our oar history bistor v as follows the morning of october hi 6 general alexander ordered the tha attack resumed and directed general johnson to give special attention to joining up with whittlesey whittlesey and his men had heard the firing to tho tha rear us iss the rest of the one hundred fifty fourth brigade tried to reach tem fetn but the firing receded died down and they iliew knew that the germans had repulsed the attack were free for a time to destroy the As a they called it they tried for five fl days day and nights alehta by infantry In attack by tre trench mortar bombs hand hana grenades gre nadea machine guns guna sweeping the valley talley by sniping rifle hilo are from front flank and tear finally by name flame throwers th rowers wera the americans clung to their small foxholes fox holes along alon the slope ope tho the trees saved deml safe holes be dug under their roots trunks and branches deflected bi bu illeta lets they sogn eoon became hubery for they bad stutter short of rations the living ati ate those of the mid before it ended were eating leaves U a I 1 I 1 I 1 00 1 0 I 1 I 1 S I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 k k I 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 X dr IT 4 Z 1 rr AP I 1 1 1 11 11 W I V 11 4 I 1 wa I 1 N U 1 I x I 1 r sl 11 I 1 4 I 1 1 ab I 1 I 1 I 1 f adiv 4 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A 1 W r 1 fact even at the end of october third the lost loot battalion was dwindling fast its effective strength on only IY two hundred forty live five water could n not t be got from the muddy stream in the valley wa watched t ched by slashed by machine guns some who w h 0 volunteered to fill canteens did not return the men had bad started without blankets and it w waa cold and rainy there ivas was no surgeon burgeon only t two w so medical med cal corps men binding wounds with bandage or wrap taken from the dead even their friends seemed to have turned against the lost battalion the second day october fourth while the germans were giving them a brief r rest es E in an allied artillery barrage came down upon th them e m slowly the shell bursts commenced commence don on the southern slope of the valley more rapidly more quickly they crept down the slope crossed tile tho valley and settled straight on the line of bf foxholes fox holes held heia by the cowering bewildered americans crashing shells threw about branches leaves stones and earth smashed in foxholes fox holes boles burying some men all wounded who could walk were moved to places of comparative safety but thirty americans americana were killed or wounded by that barrage so SD easy to pass the buck to the french but the weight of evidence to be that it was american whittlesey and mcmurtry thought so from its flaming smoking midst whittlesey sent hta his last carrier pigeon with this message m asage we are along the road parallel 2764 our own is dropping a barrage directly on us vor for heavens sake stop it to whittlesey lesey and ale mcmurtry murtry it seemed that the shells just missed them passed on right night at the end of it carne came a german attack but that was beaten oft and the sound of tle the firing told the rest re sit of the seventy seventh that the lost battalion ta on wis was still there it had made every effort to let the division know that whenever whittlesey asked volunteers to take back messages he found them the germans captured all but three of tha ha messengers captured some of them lying face downward amid the brown forest leaves so starving chilled drenched dren sleepless threatened en ed with instant death from foe or friend the men hung on through great heroism among them calm and smiling moved the scholarly spectacled whittlesey or the optimistic mcmurtry laughing and joking iri in a whisper with part of oc a german potato masher grenade sticking from B R wound n his back one by one their nine precious machine guns were knocked out their ammunition ran low the germans could not see why they did not hotsur lour render kamarad Ka morad will your they shouted across ac raski to which the replied kamerad yourself a 0 lf you I 1 some german Ar americana ns came in very ry handy there A party of sp soldiers Idlers from captain cullens company on the left flank slipped oft to look for or kitchens kitchen tor for food dropped from airplanes trying vainly to succor the lost battalion and all were killed wounded cr captured only oaly one named returned bearing this letter exactly transcribed to T the tho commanding OfIl officers cers of the ind nd ball bail J R 3 SOS 0 8 sir the bearer of the present lowell K R holling has L itan san taken prisoner by us on october lie reused to the german intelligence officer every cery answer to his questions quist yut salona ions find and Is esquite quite an honourable honour able fellow doing honor to ta his hl fatherland in the strictest sense ans of the word lie he has haft ben been charged against his will believing it doing wrong to his him country in carrying forward this present letter to the officer office in charge of the and 2nd d bat J IL R of the jtb alv IV with the purpose to recommend this commander to surrender with his forces as it would be quite useless to resist any more in view of the present conditions condit lefis the suffering of your wounded men can be heard over here in the german 1 anes nes and we ire are appealing to your human sentiments sentiment A withe flax flag shown by one of your men will tell us i that you agree with these conditions nease treat the lowell R n as a an honourable honour able man ile he Is quite a soldier w we onvy envy you the writer of that letter was heinrich print who before the war lived in seattle wash ills his ruse ruee did not work ork neither did whit reply 00 oo go to h tl it that legend originated I 1 1 A x 7 11 1 71 1 I 1 c I 1 1 11 11 I 1 IV dc e I 1 4 ad amo 1 I 1 when first 1 got the ahaz alory rn I 1 an enthusiastic divis division loir commander I 1 bold hegend eaf they ced 1 what answer r would lie he send bend lem cm general genera alexander 1 replied lie he told em cm to go fo 0 o h 1 I 1 next day those few correspondents whereat ov th makl mannered whittlesey whittlesey asked bimi I 1 did you tally really tell e cm to so go to toh h 17 ii welt well hs he e said ald slowly mcmurtry and holderman were squatting nearby near by I 1 read the note we W smiled I 1 just folded up the note it was typewritten and put itin my pocket ind and said to io the soldier go mackto your post whittlesey sald said in hla his written report no reply seemed necessary but the next thing he dio dil after putting the note not in his pocket waa wa s to order taken in the white cloth panels with which he had attempted to signal american ali airplanes planes trying to drop food he ha was afraid they might look like withe flags the rescue of tile the lost battalion waa finally accomplished by colonel hou houghton Hough aton toa of the three hundred seventh who discoe discovered ered a gap in the german barbed wire south of Charle raux valley through which men might wriggle one at a time unobserved if they were very lery careful then when e enough had got through they mag mfg might 1 t start to work their any along the valley from the east toward position by the ra orning of october seventh te two men from force hd got in touch with these nien hien creeping forward and were brought to colonel Hough tons hole in the ground some of hta wounded were found bandaged by german sa s1 surgeons r who had said eald soon it Is we who will be surrounded Ho houghton Hought lightens cn a men pushed on at seven that evening their first small party reached the right of the line of foxholes foxhole fox holes a that the lost battalion had held with such fortitude for alve days and nights gats ComP companies Ariles A 13 and nt of the three hundred seventh soon soon appeared the siege was waa ended just in time the lost battalion haaf anil held out 0 on nerve for tae he last two or three days saving every n ounce of strength to repel lepel german attacks one of 0 the worst wo rat of all hail had come the last morning october pec nth for the first time the enemy need liquid far fire belching smoke and flame did not ne de moralize the americans on the right flanks after art their terrible ordeal it made them thein mad th alipy Y jumpie from their fox holes hoea and wita their heir rifles shot the men carrying the flame yet when Hough tons mai men came among them they could hardly have withstood another attack hand grenades dea were all gone ammunition almost only two of nine machane guns left and no mai ma chine gunner sto handle them to meet the next attack the men were sharpening defiantly on stones and earth their bayoneted bay about all they haft had left the night of october s benth they got a little food the tame safely guarded by th 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