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.

Matson enlisted in the United States Army out of West Virginia at just 18 years old. He served with the 5307 Composite Unit ...

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.

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.