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 ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Wednesday awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Merrill’s Marauders, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honor to the famed Army unit from World War II. In a virtual ...

Gabriel Kinney, who joined the Army at 21 in 1942 and later fought behind Japanese enemy lines in Burma as one of the famed Merrill’s Marauders, died Sunday in Hanceville, Ala. He was 101. With his ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Three Merrill's Marauders, 1944 survivors of the secret mission of almost 3,000 presidential volunteers who fought through the disease-ridden "forgotten theater" of World War II, ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (Aug. 6, 2014) -- Governors from throughout the United States are honoring World War II Merrill's Marauders on the 70th anniversary of their unit disbanding by proclaiming Aug. 10 as ...