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Merrill’s Marauders and the World War II Burma mission that helped create today’s Army Rangers
After the U.S. troops had been driven out of Burma by the Japanese in 1943 during World War II, the Americans decided that they needed a “Long Range Penetration” mission behind Japanese lines. The ...
The Burma campaign is remembered as one of the fiercest series of battles of World War Two. It claimed the lives of 190,000 Japanese soldiers as well as a large number of civilians. Over six decades, ...
Merrill’s Marauders were sent deep into Japanese-held Burma during World War II to disrupt communications, strike supply routes, and support the Allied effort to reopen a land route to China.
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