Lost Battalion (Europe, World War II)

Lost Battalion
	; Members of 1st Battalion after their rescue. (October 31, 1944)
Date	24–30 October 1944
Location	Vosges Mountains, France
Result	American victory
Belligerents
United States	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Gen. John Dahlquist (36th); Capt. Martin J. Higgins (141st); Col. Charles W. Pence (442nd)	Walter Rolin
Units involved
36th Infantry Division 141st Infantry Regiment; 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion; 753rd Tank Battalion; 133rd Field Artillery Battalion; 442nd Infantry Regiment; 100th Infantry Battalion; 3rd Infantry Battalion; 522nd Artillery Battalion; 743rd Tank Battalion; 83rd Chemical Battalion; 3rd Chemical Battalion	244th Infantry Division 933rd Grenadier Regiment; 716th Infantry Division 736th Grenadier Regiment; 202nd Mountain Battalion 198th Fusilier Battalion
Strength
141st Regiment; 275 soldiers 442nd Regiment; 2,943 soldiers	unknown
Casualties and losses
141st Regiment; 64 killed/wounded/missing and captured; 442nd Regiment; 800 casualties	unknown

"The Lost Battalion" refers to the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, originally a Texas National Guard unit, which was surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains on 24 October 1944.^[1]