![]() ![]() On November 9, the 100th/442nd was finally relieved. More men would be lost to sickness and trench foot. ![]() Despite its depleted ranks and the exhaustion of those still barely standing, the men were ordered to continue marching along the ridges to another town. The regiment had dwindled to less than a third of its authorized strength.”īut there would be no time to mourn their dead. Of those 161 had died in battle, 42 were missing, and about 2,000 were wounded (882 of them with serious wounds). Masayo Duus, in her book “Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd,” included the following on the regiment’s status after the Lost Battalion rescue: “When the 442nd (including the 100th) had entered the Vosges a month or so before, its strength was 2,934 men. ![]() Army annals as one of the ten most significant battles of World War II.Īt full strength, the 100th/442nd numbered about 4,000 men. History would remember the heroic effort the Lost Battalion rescue is listed in U.S. In five days of continuous fighting, the 100th/442nd suffered nearly 350 casualties, including 54 killed in action and almost 300 injured to rescue the remaining 211 Lost Battalion soldiers. Fighting deep in the forests under horrific conditions, the 100th/442nd finally reached and rescued the Lost Battalion on October 30. The 141st had withstood several assaults by the enemy, but the men were low on food and ammunition and needed medical help for their wounded. ![]()
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