How many men were rescued in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918?
Charles White Whittlesey Lieutenant Colonel Charles White Whittlesey (January 20, 1884 – presumed dead November 26, 1921) was a United States Army officer and an American Medal of Honor recipient who led the "Lost Battalion" in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918 during the final stages of World War I.
Jeanne Daman Jeanne Daman (1918-86) is one of the Righteous Among the Nations. She helped rescue two thousand Jewish children from the Nazis by taking them to shelters. After the war she helped to find the children so they could be brought back to their families, and helped care for children who had survived the concentration camps. Daman also took Jewish women to be maids in Belgian households, giving them false identity papers and ration cards, and attempting to keep them informed of where their children were hiding.