Merrill’s Marauders or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit, was a United States Army special operations force unit that specialized in artillery observer, close-quarters battle, c
Merrill and Stilwell in Burma
Brig Gen Frank Merrill, poses with Japanese-American interpreters T/Sgt. Herbert Miyasaki and T/Sgt. Akiji Yoshimura in Burma. 1 May 1944.
General Stilwell awarding medals at Myitkyina.
Marauders rest during a break along a jungle trail near Nhpum Ga.
The United States Army Rangers are U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger Sch
Merrill's Marauders
…the Marauders' success was the inclusion of fourteen Japanese-American Military Intelligence Service translators assigned to the unit, including future United States Army Rangers (Army Rangers) and Military Intelligence Hall of Fame inductee Roy Matsumoto. Weight was critical to the Marauders, and the need for a compact, lightweight…
Colonel Benjamin Church (1639–1718), father of American Ranging and Rangers. He is in the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame and has a bronze Ranger Tab affixed to his gravestone.
1988 illustration of two soldiers of Rogers' Rangers conferring with a British Army sergeant by Manuel B. Ablaza
Rangers en route to liberate allied soldiers in the Cabanatuan POW camp