French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian Mitchell Yockelson tour the site of the Lost Battalion. They visit the trenches that were used by military forces and explain artifacts that ...

Total French casualties in the 10 months of Verdun were 375,000 - about 40,000 a month, or 90,000 a month for the meat-grinding of the intense, first phase of the campaign. Myth three.

The Lost Battalion's 77th Division was the first Army Reserve division to deploy overseas and fight in World War I. Meuse Argonne American Cemetery is the largest American cemetery in Europe.

The Truth about the Most Iconic Battle of the Great War. The title notwithstanding, this book is a very good preparatory reading for W.W. I. In it, Dr. Mosier covers a number of broad topics; ...

And the cost of the battle had been enormously high on both sides: The French lost 160,000 men; the Germans, 140,000. Verdun was World War I combat at its worst — “very impersonal and very, very ...

Jacob Rangitsch was part of a U.S. Army battalion of 600-some soldiers and untrained recruits who broke through German lines and were surrounded for six days in the French forest, fighting with ...

World War I's Battle of Verdun began with a German artillery attack on French positions on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It's considered the longest battle in modern warfare.

FRANCE—Oct. 8, 2018, was the 100th anniversary of the relief of “The Lost Battalion.” Some 550 American soldiers fighting in the heavily forested and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest in ...