CSPAN3 American Artifacts The Lost Battalion July 13, 2024
Battlefield guide and historian who explain what happened and show us century old trenches and a memorial to the lost battalion in the forest. Where are we standing . We are inside the argonnes forest. We are near a mine crater. Its probably a century after the war and still around 25 feet deep and Something Like 80 feet wide. It was a huge mine exploding here. We have to imagine ground up in the air, probably 50 meters high. You could probably see and feel the earth trembling miles around. Where are we on the front . What troops would have been here that wouldve suffered from the mine explosi...