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From the BBC World Service before we start, a warning that this episode contains dramatized battle scenes and outdated racial language.
This is Purple Heart warriors, an original six part drama series inspired by real events.
From the BBC World Service episode 5 the Lost Battalion the Japanese American 100,400,442nd Regimental Combat Team arrived in France still dressed in their summer issue uniforms.
They were met with thick fog and chilling temperatures in the dense and foreboding forests of the Vosges Mountains.
Attached to the 36th Infantry Division, also known as the Texas Division, they were placed under the command of Major General John Dahlquist, who had had no previous combat experience.
Dahlquist's penchant for micromanaging combat units and usurping the chain of command often rankled his officers.
Still, they managed to liberate the town of Bruyeres and overtook the surrounding hills, though not without suffering great losses.
Now they were ordered to head back down into the town of Bifontaine, a strategy which commanding officers and later historians criticized as having little tactical value.
Our story continues in Biffontaine, France, October 1944.
Captain Kim, we have orders to take Biffontaine.
You're to set out at 0500.
Colonel Penn, sir, with all due respect, that's a bad idea.
We're already beyond radio range.
I'm using a hand cranked radio from 522's truck to patch us in.
But once we're beyond that ridge, we'll have no more communications.
We'll be beyond artillery support.
We're already low on food and ammo.
We'd been in battle for so long that it was hard to remember who I really was.
Only every now and then it would hit me.