After the attack, Companies K, L, and I were down to less than 20 men standing each, out of 200 at full strength. Only a handful of Nisei's that were still able to walk made contact with the Lost Battalion. Of 275 men cut off six days earlier, only 211 remained. "Saying we were thrilled is an understatement," commented Lt. Marty Higgins, veteran of A Company, 1st Battalion, 141st "Alamo" Rgt, who was in command of the Lost Batallion.
When the German Grenadier Rgt 933 was withdrawn after surrounding the "Lost Battalion" and fighting the 442nd RCT, only eighty men remained of a force that had nearly three thousand men three months earlier.
At the end of the Battle, on November 12, 1944, the 442nd RCT stood at attention to be recognized for the heroism in the forest battles in front of General Dahlquist and to pass in review. Dalquist asked where are all the men? "Sorry sir... this is all we have left" replied a teary-eyed officer. After days of near constant fighting the 442nd had suffered roughly 1,000 casualties while rescuing 211 men behind enemy lines. 200 soldiers were killed in action (or missing) with over 800 seriously wounded.
All in all, 161 of the 2,943 men entering the engagement in the forest had been killed, 43 were missing, and about 2,000 were wounded. For its heroic action in the Vosges, the 442nd RCT received five Presidential Unit Citations.
