The Lost Battalion - Mr. Lynch's Social Studies
The Lost Battalion Video Worksheet
Directions: Answer the following questions as you watch the movie.
1. In what year does this movie take place? ___________
2. List three distinctive features of the trench.
a.
b.
c.
3. What does Major Whittlesey require all the men to do with their uniforms? _________________________________________________________________
4. Why do the men need to provide cover fire for the medic? ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Why does General Alexander have little respect for Major Whittlesey?
6. Where in the United States do most of Whittlesey’s men come from? ____________________
7. Where in the United States does Private Yoder come from? __________________
8. The men who passed Major Whittlesey’s car earlier are youthful and smiling as they march. How does this compare to the soldiers the men see pass the truck? _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. The experienced soldiers say that the battles come down to the use of what weapon? _________________________
10. How do the new recruits react to the tea kettle sound? ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
11. What do they use to signal the men to go over the top? _______________
12. The General gives the order that no one “can give up ground unless under _______________________________________________________________________.”
13. Give three words the German Generals use to describe the American soldiers.
a.
b.
c.
14. Where does Private LaPasti learn to run so fast? _____________________________________________
15. Why wont the General give Major Whittlesey permission to retreat? _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
16. How does Major Whittlesey try to maintain military decorum(respect/professionalism)?
17. What do they burn to make the Germans think they are having breakfast and are therefore not ready? ______________________
18. What change occurs in the battle to allow the Americans to move forward and push the Germans back? ____________________________________________________________________________________
19. The Polish soldier states that he is only considered a “Pollock” in ______________, but that he is an American because he did what? ___________________________________
20. How do they get the German sniper? ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
21. Where do they get the bandages for the wounded? ___________________________________________
22. How do they first react to the American artillery fire? __________________________
23. Then what happens? ___________________________________________________________________
24. How do they stop the artillery fire? _______________________________________________________
25. What is causing the American and French armies to keep attacking the Germans in that area?
____________________________________________________________________________________
26. What type of lawyer was Whittlesey? ______________________________________________
27. How does Lt. Leek describe the Americans to the German General? ____________________________________________________________________________________
28. Why don’t the Germans fire on the plane? _________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
29. What makes them fire on the plane later? __________________________
30. What happens to the pilot? ______________________________________________________________
31. What is an “Indoor Aviator?” ___________________________________________________________
32. Why didn’t he get the job? ____________________________________________________
33. What do they take from the German dead? __________
34. What does Whittlesey do with the surrender flag? ___________________________________________
35. What unit did Captain Holderman serve with before the war? __________________________________
36. What is the German General’s response when his soldiers are forced to retreat for the last time? “_________________________________________”
37. When asked where the rest of his battalion was, what does Whittlesey hand General Alexander? ________________________________
38. Why won’t Whittlesey ride in the staff car? ________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
39. When his men fall in to march out of the forest behind the lead of Major Whittlesey, what do they do to their uniforms? ________________________________. Why is this significant? __________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________
40. What medal is awarded to Whittlesey, Holderman, and McMurtry? _____________________________
41. How many soldiers did Whittlesey lead into the forest? _________________
42. How many soldiers left with him? __________________
43. How long were they in the forest? ___________________
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