“We were expendable,” said Merrill’s Marauder Sam V. Wilson, who turns 93 next month. The retired Army lieutenant general, who helped create Delta Force and still contributes to military and other publications, explained,  “A plan existed on paper to get us into Burma, but no plan existed to get us out.”
Yet those extraordinary volunteers achieved their final objective May 17, 1944

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