An undated Pittsburgh Press clipping features Russell Hamler meeting Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Mountbatten, who was head of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raleigh Nayes, 99, died Thursday in Chippewa Falls, Wis., just one day after the Army veteran had received the Congressional Gold Medal for his role in fighting with the famed Merrill’s Marauders in ...

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 ...

In this photo provided by Larry Robinson, his father-in-law James Eubaun Richardson rides a tractor at his home in Jacksboro, Tenn., on July 30, 2014. Richardson, one of the few surviving members of ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veterans of a top-secret U.S. Army unit that fought behind enemy lines in the jungles of Burma in World War II will finally receive the recognition they deserve, due to ...

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 ...

American soldiers, members of Gen. Frank Merrill's 'marauders', with trained Chinese soldiers on a jungle trail in Burma circa 1940. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) HARRISBURG, Pa. — The reputed last ...

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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 ...