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The Lost Battalion

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The Lost Battalion	comment	The Lost Battalion is a 2001 made-for-TV war movie. Set in October 1918, it tells the true story of a U.S. Army battalion, specifically 1st Battalion, 308th Infantry Regiment (reinforced by a couple of understrength companies from two other battalions), which becomes trapped behind German lines. Rather than surrender to the Germans, the American troops decide to hold out until reinforcements arrive. It stars Rick Schroder as Maj. Charles Whittlesey, who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.
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The Lost Battalion / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Lost Battalion / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Most named soldiers die in battle.
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The Lost Battalion / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Lost Battalion / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Yoder, who despite being an inexperienced new recruit soon becomes amicable with the rest of the battalion once he establishes himself to be a crack shot with a rifle, managing to kill a German sniper and several flamethrower operators with a single shot each.
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The Lost Battalion / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
The Lost Battalion / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Lt. Leak, a new platoon commander, had never seen combat before the events of the movie. However, because most of his men are just as green and inexperienced as he is, and the few veterans he has under his command show him respect to set an example for the new guys, he doesn't get too much disrespect, and he proves a very capable leader in combat.
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The Lost Battalion / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Lost Battalion / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Maj. Whittlesey and Capt. McMurtry both deeply care for their troops.
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The Lost Battalion / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Lost Battalion / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Pvt. Cepaglia and Pvt. Rosen seem to have known each other for a long time and are best friends.
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The Lost Battalion / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
The Lost Battalion / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: Most prominent among the cast are Sgt. Gaedeke and Pvt. Cepaglia (both English) and the "Texan" Lt. Leak (South African).
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The Lost Battalion / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
The Lost Battalion / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: At the end of the movie, Gen. Alexander finally arrives with reinforcements, only to discover that the battalion has single-handedly repulsed all enemy attacks, and more than half of the trapped soldiers have either been killed or captured.
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The Lost Battalion / int_3dc1e273	type	Not Enough to Bury
The Lost Battalion / int_3dc1e273	comment	Not Enough to Bury: Gaedeke is ripped apart by artillery, and Whittlesey nearly name drops the trope while mentioning this.
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The Lost Battalion / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Lost Battalion / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Despite what Gen. Alexander tells Maj. Whittlesey, no Allied troops are supporting his flanks.
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The Lost Battalion / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Lost Battalion / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The battalion holds the line against the Germans and are eventually relieved by Allied reinforcments, but over half the unit is killed, captured, or wounded. It's even worse if you know the real life fate of Major Whittlesey. He survives the war, but is wracked by guilt and the constant pressure for public appearances post-war. He disappears in 1921, with common consensus being he committed suicide.
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The Lost Battalion / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Lost Battalion / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Maj. Prinz, a German officer, comes to consider the American troops as this, and even wants to give them free passage back to their own lines.
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The Lost Battalion / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Lost Battalion / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The film depicts Whittlesey defiantly throwing a surrender flag in the direction of the Germans to show his refusal to comply. In real life, Whittlesey reported that he gave no response to the German surrender ultimatum at all, as he hoped not responding would buy his unit more time to prepare for the inevitable German attack that would follow. The only action he took was to order his men to take down white sheets they had placed out as a signal for aircraft, in order to ensure they would not be mistaken for a sign of surrender. The film shows the aircrew of an observation plane being wounded while reporting The Lost Battalion's position and dying after they make it back to their Aerodrome. This is based on real life pilot Harold Geottler and his observer Erwin Bleckley, who were both fatally wounded in action from ground fire while attempting to airdrop supplies to the unit (not map their position). Their plane did not make it back to their base, but crashed in the woods. Both men received the Medal of Honor for their actions.
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The Lost Battalion / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Lost Battalion / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: A minor example, but when the captured Pvt. Hollingshead was escorted back to American lines to deliver a message to Maj. Whittlesey, he shakes his escort's hand before they part ways, acknowledging that despite being on opposing sides, they were both still human beings.
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The Lost Battalion / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
The Lost Battalion / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: The battalion loses at least sixty men to their own artillery before they can send a message to HQ telling them to stop.
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The Lost Battalion / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Lost Battalion / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Major Whittlesey exhibits a heartbreaking thousand-yard stare as he marches out with the survivors of his battalion at the end. The real Whittlesey was wracked with survivor’s guilt and Post-Traumatic Stress, made worse by his celebrity status when he went home. Unable to cope, he took his own life in 1920.
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The Lost Battalion / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
The Lost Battalion / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Almost everyone in the company is from New York. Some, such as Pvt. Cepaglia, have extremely pronounced accents.
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The Lost Battalion / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
The Lost Battalion / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Privates Cepaglia and Rosen stress the importance of the bayonet when giving new replacements advice. Sure, artillery, grenades, and machine guns will kill you, but you can't do anything about that except hit the ground. But when an enemy soldier comes at you with a fixed bayonet, you'd better kill him before he kills you.
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The Lost Battalion / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Lost Battalion / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "Ya see, Major, what you’re facing is a bunch of mick, dago, polack, and Jew-boy New York gangsters, and they ain’t never gonna surrender!"
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The Lost Battalion / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Lost Battalion / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: Well, pretty much everyone in the battalion counts, but the most standout examples include: Maj. Whittlesey: aside from being more or less fearless, this guy bum-rushed a German soldier with a flamethrower, dove beneath the jet of flame, and then stabbed the guy with his bayonet. Capt. McMurtry: the man is very handy with his sidearm, and he is capable of putting precisely aimed shots into charging enemies at close range. And then there's the fact that he continued to fight for several days with a piece of shrapnel sticking out of his shoulder like it's nothing.* This is actually less badass than his real life counterpart, who also took shrapnel to the knee, yet still insisted on walking out with his men before receiving medical attention. Pvt. Cepaglia and Pvt. Rosen: the two of them are considered to be two of the best and most experienced soldiers in the outfit, and the ones that McMurty will turn to for a difficult mission. Pvt. Rosen gets extra badass points for charging a troop of German flamethrower troops, diving underneath the flames, grabbing the flamethrower, and using it to burn several other Germans. Pvt. Cepaglia gets points for taking a bullet to the gut, and then continuing to fight anyway, though he died afterwards.
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The Lost Battalion / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Lost Battalion / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The captured Lt. Leak tells Maj. Prinz, "What you're up against, Major, is a bunch of Mick, Pollack, Dago,note Irish-, Polish- and Italian-American, respectively and Jew gangster boys from New York City. They'll never surrender." They also have a Chinese field phone operator and a Native American runner.
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The Lost Battalion / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Lost Battalion / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Capt. McMurty doesn't even notice when he takes a piece of shrapnel to the shoulder, and when he does, he just makes some offhand remark about how his mother always said he needed a place to hang his hat.
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The Lost Battalion / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Lost Battalion / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: As seen on the DVD cover above, the Germans gave them two choices: surrender or die. As you can see, they picked this instead.
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The Lost Battalion / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Lost Battalion / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: After all else fails, the Germans decide to use flamethrowers to flush out the remaining U.S. troops. This tactic fails too.
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The Lost Battalion / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
The Lost Battalion / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Capt. McMurtry is pretty much unflappable. Case in point, when two Germans with fixed bayonets were charging at him from two different directions, he calmly shot one in the head, then turned and did the same to the other. Rosen and Cepheglia are introduced giving instructions to some New Meat troops while enemy artillery is landing nearby, something they barely react to as the new men jump around nervously.
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The Lost Battalion / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Lost Battalion / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: When the American artillery starts coming down on the advancing German lines, the Americans are understandably excited about this. The men start cheering, and the soundtrack becomes almost patriotic... Then the artillery starts falling on the Americans and things go to hell.
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The Lost Battalion / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
The Lost Battalion / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Gen. Alexander, who commands the 77th Division (of which the 308th Infantry is part), seems to be a self-aware version of this trope. He sends Whittlesey's battalion on a suicidal assault against the German lines, and wants them to hold their position even after other U.S. and French troops have retreated to the Allied lines because unless the allies gained a foothold, they would continue to be repulsed. He is deeply shocked, however, when he discovers that his own artillery is firing on the trapped battalion. When Maj. Whittlesey confronts Gen. Alexander at the end, Alexander tells Whittlesey that the battalion suffered "acceptable losses," because even though they were decimated, they gave the Americans a chance to push through the German lines. He doesn't regret sacrificing the battalion because it was necessary, but when Whittlesey bluntly tells him that any one of the men in the battalion was a better man than both the General and himself, Alexander doesn't disagree. The German general is much worse by comparison, sending wave after wave of troops against the enemy without any artillery or air support.
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The Lost Battalion / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Lost Battalion / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Cpt. Holderman takes a bayonet to the thigh, which gave him a wound so bad he needed to use a discarded rifle as a crutch/cane. He continues to fight anyway.
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The Lost Battalion / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
The Lost Battalion / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Privates Cepaglia and Rosen fill this role to the younger, less experienced, soldiers.
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The Lost Battalion / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Lost Battalion / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Not acceptable" may as well be Whittlesey's.
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The Lost Battalion / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Lost Battalion / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Gen. Alexander takes this stance on leaving Whittlesey and his men cut off and surrounded: they were in a key point in the Germans' lines, and their stubborn defense gave the rest of the American forces a chance to push through.
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The Lost Battalion / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Lost Battalion / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: All attempts by the Army to support The Lost Battalion only end up making their situation worse. Artillery strikes end up falling on Whittlesey's men, while attempts to resupply the Unit by airdrop resulted in supplies falling into German hands.
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The Lost Battalion / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
The Lost Battalion / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: Private Chinn is mentioned as having been killed in battle sometime after his last scene.
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The Lost Battalion / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
The Lost Battalion / int_bf609406	comment	Rosen and Cepheglia are introduced giving instructions to some New Meat troops while enemy artillery is landing nearby, something they barely react to as the new men jump around nervously.
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The Lost Battalion / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Lost Battalion / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Whittlesey screams, "NO!" when he sees the first casualties of the German's flamethrower attack.
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The Lost Battalion / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Lost Battalion / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Maj. Whittlesey was a New York Lawyer before he joined the army. The movie doesn't bring it up, but so was Captain McMurty, having graduated Harvard in 1899, after serving in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
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The Lost Battalion / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Lost Battalion / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Capt. McMurtry seems to have a talent for pulling these off in close quarters combat.
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The Lost Battalion / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Lost Battalion / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Maj. Prinz, the German officer coordinating the attack on the Lost Battalion, is a Type I/Type IV. Prinz is a loyal German officer, and it is his duty to defeat the American battalion because they are holding a very strategic location. However, he is also an honorable man who treats prisoners of war well and who has nothing but respect for his enemies. By the end, he straight out tells a captured American soldier that he wants to save as many of their lives as possible, and when he sends the soldier back with a message to Whittlesey, asking him to surrender, the first thing the message says is that the American soldier bearing the message had done his country proud by refusing to give German intelligence officers any answers.
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The Lost Battalion / int_d29e7760	type	Southern-Fried Private
The Lost Battalion / int_d29e7760	comment	Southern-Fried Private: Lt. Leak, a Texan officer with a heavy accent, who claims he can't understand the New York City accent of his troops.
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The Lost Battalion / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Lost Battalion / int_d397657d	comment	Pvt. Cepaglia and Pvt. Rosen: the two of them are considered to be two of the best and most experienced soldiers in the outfit, and the ones that McMurty will turn to for a difficult mission. Pvt. Rosen gets extra badass points for charging a troop of German flamethrower troops, diving underneath the flames, grabbing the flamethrower, and using it to burn several other Germans. Pvt. Cepaglia gets points for taking a bullet to the gut, and then continuing to fight anyway, though he died afterwards.
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The Lost Battalion / int_db165dcf	type	Doomed Hurt Guy
The Lost Battalion / int_db165dcf	comment	Doomed Hurt Guy: The opening scene shows a blinded soldier trying to make it through No Man's Land while being fired on by the Germans as two comrades try to help him. The blind soldier's companions make it, but he's gunned down just a few feet from safety.
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The Lost Battalion / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Lost Battalion / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: During the artillery bombardment, Sgt. Gaedeke is blown to pieces by an artillery shell, leaving only his helmet.
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The Lost Battalion / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Lost Battalion / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The reserve troops, when being trucked to the front line, pass by several troops who have been gassed. As it turns out, this is the only hardship the Americans don't face.
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The Lost Battalion / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
The Lost Battalion / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: In an example of how desperate the situation had become, the Americans had started taking the used bandages off of the dead to use on their still living wounded.
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The Lost Battalion / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
The Lost Battalion / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: After a potato-masher goes off right behind him, Capt. McMurtry receives a large piece of shrapnel in his shoulder. He doesn't even notice until another soldier points it out to him, and decides to leave it in.
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The Lost Battalion / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Lost Battalion / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When the Germans' first major push was about to overrun the Americans' position, Captain Holderman and his company (from another battalion) arrive. The sudden arrival of 97 men blindsided and overwhelmed the Germans, pushing them back.
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The Lost Battalion / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Lost Battalion / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: It's a World War I movie, what did you expect? The trenches of the Western Front are shown immediately to be depressing and hellish, the effects of poison gas on an entire unit are shown, and fighting in both the trenches and forests is brutal, unforgiving, and up close.
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