Meuse Argonne - The Lost Battalion, Pt 1: Into the Charlevaux (featuring Robert J. Laplander)

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On October 1st, 1918, fresh from being relieved from encirclement in the Small Pocket on l’Homme Mort, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 308th Infantry Regiment are ordered to attack into the Argonne yet again.

Led by MAJ Charles Whittlesey, the two battalions plunge into the Ravin d’Argonne, and on October 2nd, the Americans break through the German lines and into Charlevaux Ravine. The story of the Lost Battalion has begun.

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0:00.0	Your objective is the line vertical 294.5, horizontal 276.6.
0:08.4	You will take your objective and hold it at any cost until support arrives.
0:13.4	Colonel Cromwell Stacey, Commander 308th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Argon Forest, lost battalion, part one, into the Charlevo.
0:55.7	A hearty thanks to my man Rob Laplander for the opening quote for this and the next episodes.
1:03.0	All of the quotes for the next episodes will be coming from his book,
1:07.3	Finding the Lost Battalion, Beyond the Rumors, Myths, and Legends of America's
1:13.2	famous World War I epic, which is really the one book you need to read on this subject.
1:23.2	So we've got some admin notes to go through before we begin.
1:32.4	Let's start off with PayPal shoutouts to Andrew, Michael, and Paul.
1:35.3	Thank you for your generous donations.
1:41.9	Patreon shoutouts go out to our newest patrons there.
1:45.9	Madeline, Keith, Elad, Blair, whose grandfather fought at Vimy Ridge and other places,
1:50.4	David and Bart.
1:52.9	Thank you all for signing up
1:55.1	to support the podcast continuously.
1:59.5	While we're here, let's do Patreon pitch time. As patrons on Patreon, you will have
2:06.9	early access to all new episodes, as well as transcripts and bibliographies for those episodes.
2:14.2	Patrons also have other perks, such as extra episodes, that have not yet been released.
2:20.5	Patrons currently have access to an episode on the Battle for Femme and Femet in the summer of 1918,
2:27.4	and as patrons requested, we are working our way through the Battle of Tannenberg.
2:33.3	There are plans, too, for an episode or two,
2:37.3	on the little-covered 1918 Battle of Suasson.
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