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.

Modeled after British Brigadier General Orde Wingate’s Long Range Penetration Force, the ‘Chindits,’ volunteers of the U.S. 5307th Composite Unit arrived in Bombay, India on October 31st, 1943, to ...

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 ...

Cpl. Kenneth E. Matson was killed in action in June 1944 during the Battle of Myitkyina, aged 22. On Thursday, he was returned to his hometown of Man after more than eight decades.