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Forever lost in the Pocket -- a man's story in twenty photos.
Charlie Whittlesey was one of a million Americans who were thrust into battle in France’s Argonne Forest in October 1918.
He commanded a company of 554 men who had been ordered to fight their way through a thickly wooded ravine and assault a German observation post and artillery battery located halfway up a hill.
American and French units were to fight a…
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