Merrill’s Marauders crossed Burma half-starved, sick, and outgunned, but still took Myitkyina airfield and carved the bloodline that runs straight into today’s 75th Ranger Regiment.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Gilbert Horn Sr., a decorated World War II veteran honored for his service as a Native American code talker, died Sunday at the Northern Montana Care Center in Havre. He was 92.

Matson enlisted in the United States Army out of West Virginia at just 18 years old. He served with the 5307 Composite Unit (Provisional) an all-volunteer, regiment sized special operations force ...

In early April 1944, Merrill’s Marauders were surrounded on a jungle hill in northern Burma. The place was officially known as Nhpum Ga. The men gave it another name: Maggot Hill. The name came from ...

Merrill's Marauders, volunteers who specialised in "hit-and-run" tactics in the jungles and mountains of Burma during World War II, received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2020.

More than eight decades after he fell in the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Cpl. Kenneth E. Matson came home to Logan County on ...