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TIL of the "Lost Battalion," 211 Texas Guardsmen that were surrounded in the Vosges Mts. in 1944. They were saved by the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment, which suffered over 800 casualties while effecting the rescue. Veterans of the 442nd were later made "honorary Texans" in 1962.

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