Last veteran of America's famed WWII jungle fighting unit 'Merrill's Marauders' dies at 99
Soldiers in Merrill's Marauders on patrol in the jungles of Burma on June 16, 1944. AP Photo 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. Hamler was…
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