The Lost Battalion Association is composed of the men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery and those men who swam ashore from the Cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) when it was sunk, and who survived 42 months of hell as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. The 2nd Battalion, along with the rest of the 36th Infantry Division, was mobilized for federal service on November 20, 1940. In ...