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Assignment:
The Lost Battalion viewing guide
1. What month and year did the events in this video take place?
2. Why did Major Whittlesey speak out to the General in the meeting?
3. Why do you think the army carried birds with them into battle?
4. Why did the General lie to Major Whittlesey about the French being ahead of his force?
5. Why do you think the American army used a French machine gun?
6. What did the German major do during the first attack against the Americans?
7. Why didn't Major Whittlesey get the order to return to their own lines?
8. Why do you think the other American forces were so determined to help the Lost Battalion?
9. How did the Americans respond to the German demand that they surrender?
10. How did the Americans act when the Germans use flamethrowers against them?
11. What happened to the carrier pigeon who was wounded but managed to get through to stop the artillery barrage from killing more Americans?
12. How long was the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest? How many marched out after the ordeal was over?