Styles. Visit our website. Cspan. Org thepresident s. To learn more about each president and his historian feature and order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. For six days in early october, 1918, more than 500 u. S. Soldiers were surrounded by germans in the argon forest in northeastern france. At the time, the story of the lost battalion became frontpage news back home. And it continues to be remembered as one of world war i is most dramatic stories. Up next on american artifacts we travel to france with a battlefield guy and a historian who explained what happened and show us centuryold trenches and a memorial to the lost battalion in the argon forest. So here, where we are standing. We are in the middle of the forest, in fact. We are standing close by a mine crater. Such big mine exploding here. If you look at the size of the crater, its probably nowadays one century, still around 25 feet deep and Something Like 80 feet wide. A mine exploding here. We have up in th
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Announcer ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. As we get into this next session, im sure you noticed on the official program that were one speaker short for this panel. Dr. Raymond callahan due to circumstances beyond his control could not be with us today so today. So, were sorry that we are missing him today, but, you know, his friends here in new orleans are certainly thinking about him. To lead this session, we have called on one of the most distinguished military historians that were very fortunate to have right up the road here at the university of new orleans, dr. Allan millett. His career has not only filled many bookshelves, but he has also fill the ranks of military history phds by overseeing the most doctoral candidates of anyone in the country. Its hard not to find one of his students around. To talk about one of the most important battles in june of 1944 and the war as a whole, its my pleasure to call on dr. Alan millett and Hiroyuki Shindo to discuss the battle in the chin
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