During World War II, an Army unit of nearly 3,000 soldiers marched more than 1,000 miles into Japanese-held Burma, launching raids, ambushes and reconnaissance missions deep behind enemy lines. They ...

Hamler was the last living Marauder, the daughter of a late former Marauder, Jonnie Melillo Clasen, told Stars and Stripes. Hamler had been living in the Pittsburgh area. In 2022, the Marauders ...

During the slaughter of Japanese troops at Burma’s Walawbum in March 1944, members of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), better known as Merrill’s Marauders, hurled — alongside mortars, grenades ...

Exactly why the ordinary-looking bridge that carries Everett Turnpike traffic over the Souhegan River at the Nashua-Merrimack line would become the favorite of a retired U.S. Army officer who, for ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to five veterans of the U.S. Army special operations unit known as Merrill’s Marauders, who fought in the ...

Robert E. Passanisi, who as a 17-year-old doctored his birth certificate in 1942 so that he could join the Army and ended up in Burma as one of Merrill’s Marauders, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The reputed last member of the famed American jungle fighting unit in World War II nicknamed the “Merrill’s Marauders” has died. Russell Hamler, 99, died on Tuesday, his son ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — The reputed last member of the famed American jungle fighting unit in World War II nicknamed the Merrill’s Marauders has died. Russell Hamler, 99, died on Tuesday, his son Jeffrey ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The reputed last ...