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.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Wednesday awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Merrill’s Marauders, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honor to the famed Army unit from World War II. In a virtual ...

MUMBAI (IANS) – Amitabh Bachchan shared an anecdote about the veteran actress Helen and talked about how she had escaped from the Japanese occupation of Burma in 1943, during World War 2, and came to ...

The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people have learned to endure. They can now gauge the distance of incoming ...

Merrill's Marauders, volunteers who specialised in "hit-and-run" tactics in the jungles and mountains of Burma during World War II, received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2020.

Sky History has commissioned the one-off doc The Last Burma Star, which will highlight the surviving veterans of the Allied Burma campaign in the Second World War. The 60-minute doc, which is set to ...

PHILADELPHIA — The remains of a Philadelphia native killed on a bombing mission over Burma during World War II were identified late last year, nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense POW/MIA ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...