U.S. Army Pvt. Roman Cherubini was serving with the 475th Infantry Regiment in the China-India-Burma Theater when he was ...

“Merrill’s Marauders,” as they were known, achieved major successes despite heavy losses. This week the last of the surviving Marauders died. Private First Class Russell Hamler died at the ...

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.

Jeff Chandler's last role, as Brigadier General Frank Merrill, is one of his best. The rugged, gray-thatched Chandler fits this role naturally and portrays one of World War II's most colorful ...

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 ...

As one of the few surviving members of Merrill’s Marauders Gabe Kinney recently accepted the Congressional Gold Medal. At the ceremony, Kinney said, “There is one group that we all want to be ...

Russell Hamler, reputed to be the last living member of Merrill's Marauders, died at 99. The Marauders hacked and fought through hundreds of miles of jungle to capture a Japanese airfield.

Merrill’s Marauders, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), were a group of 3,000 men who volunteered in 1943 for a top secret mission where few of them were expected to survive. The unit ...