In late October 1943, Japanese American soldiers in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were ordered into the rugged Vosges Mountains in Eastern France.

Many of the soldiers in the 442nd RCT had volunteered from stateside concentration camps where their families had been imprisoned after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

Their mission was to reach roughly 275 National Guard members in the 36th Infantry's "Alamo Regiment" which had been cut off and surrounded by elite German fighting forces in the dense, foggy terrain.

After a brutal five-day running battle, I Company broke through the German lines and rescued 211 soldiers in "The Lost Battalion."

The cost was high.

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team suffered more than 800 casualties.

I Company began the attack with 185 men.

Only eight men were left standing ...

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