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WWII jungle fighting unit approved for congressional medal

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The soldiers spent months behind enemy lines, marching hundreds of miles through the tangled jungles and steep mountains of Burma as they battled hunger and disease between firefights with Japanese forces during their secret mission.

In February 1944, the American jungle fighting unit nicknamed Merrill’s Marauders set out to capture a Japanese-held airfield and open an Allied supply route between India and China. Starting with 3,000 soldiers, the Marauders completed their mission five months later with barely 200 men still in the fight.

The journey of roughly 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) on foot was so grueling that fighting “was the easy part,” said Robert Passanisi, who at age 96 is among just nine known Marauders still known to be alive.

Now the Marauders, officially designated by the Army as the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), have been approved by Congress to be awarded its highest honor: the Congressional Gold Medal.


Well deserved (y)
 
I remember seeing the movie (1962) about these soldiers when I was a kid. True heroes. The award is very much deserved. Too bad it wasn't issued when more of them were still around.
 
Merrill’s Marauder's were extremely brave, as were other similar forces such as the British Chindits.
 
Those were real men.

Not like those BLM and ANTIFA supporters who pick on the weak & defenseless.

Those vets would have been sickened if they had known that they were fighting so hard and enduring so much, only to have those BLM and ANTIFA creeps soil this country.
 
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