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Archaeologists have identified the lost city of Tharais near Jordan's Dead Sea. The discovery is based on the 1,500-year-old Madaba Mosaic Map, revealing its location.
The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to ...
Before they were known as the “Lost Battalion,” the 1st Battalion was a part of the 36th Infantry Division fighting in Europe during World War II. After a bungled strategic decision sent them ...
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That mixed component of troops, under the overall command of Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey, became known as the “Lost Battalion,” despite the 77th not exactly being a battalion nor particularly lost.
Specifically, in battles today and yesterday near just one village - Makhnovka in the Kursk region - the Russian army lost up to a battalion of infantry, including North Korean soldiers and ...
Russia has lost up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers over the past two days in its western Kursk border region in the ongoing war against Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ...
Historical Section. World War I Branch. ca. 1918-ca. 1948. The Operation of the So-Called "Lost Battalion", October 2 to 8, 1918. 1928. National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference.
Lt. Erwin Blonder, 141st Infantry Division (Lost Battalion member). (Courtesy: Leslie Tramer). “If it wasn’t for him and that radio, this story probably ends very differently,” says Hunt.
In all, 163 men from the Lost Battalion died in Japanese camps. In September 1944, American submarines on routine war patrols came across Japanese merchant ships carrying hundreds of Allied prisoners.