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3/5307-(C)-(P) Merrill’s Marauders – Myitkyina (Burma) – July – August 1944 – Maj John J. Dunn (US)

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Featured-5307 — March 17, 1944 – Northern Burma. Soldiers of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), better known as Merrill’s Marauders, cross the Chindwin River during one of the most grueling jungle campaigns of World War II. Moving through some of the harshest terrain in the China-Burma-India Theater, these American troops operated deep behind Japanese lines in support of the Allied advance toward Myitkyina. Burdened by exhaustion, tropical disease, monsoon conditions, and constant enemy pressure, the Marauders fought under extreme circumstances that pushed human endurance to its limits. Their campaign through the jungles of Burma became one of the most demanding and costly long-range penetration operations conducted by American forces during the war.

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