Unit Ke-5307 Komposit (sementara) | |
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Aktif | 1943–1944 |
Negara | Amerika Syarikat |
Cawangan | Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat |
Jenis | Infantri ringan khas |
Saiz | Rejimen |
Nama samaran | Merrill's Marauders |
Pertempuran | Perang Dunia II *Kempen Burma |
Komander | |
Komander terkenal | Brigedier Jeneral Frank Merrill Charles N. Hunter |
Merrill’s Marauders (dinamakan sempena Frank Merrill) atau Unit Galahad, secara rasminya dinamakan Unit Ke-5307 Komposit (Sementara), adalah sebuah unit operasi khas penyusupan jarak jauh Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat dalam peperangan hutan, yang berjuang di Kancah Asia Tenggara (Perang Dunia Kedua), atau Kancah China Burma India (CBI). Unit ini menjadi terkenal dengan misi penyusupan rahsianya kedalam barisan pertahanan Jepun, sering bertempur dengan tentera Jepun yang berjumlah lebih besar.
Lihat juga
Rujukan
- Nota
- Bibliografi
- Barker, Alan, Merrill's Marauders, Ballantine (1972).
- Kearny, Cresson H. (Major), Jungle Snafus...And Remedies, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (1996), ISBN 1-884067-10-7
- George, John B. (Lt. Col.), Shots Fired In Anger, NRA Publications (1981), ISBN 0-935998-42-X, 978-0935998429
- Hopkins, James Spearhead, Merrill's Marauders Society (2000). ISBN 0-8018-6404-6.
- Hoyt, Edwin, Merrill's Marauders, Pinnacle Books (1980). ISBN 0-523-40671-1.
- Hunter, Charles Newton, Galahad, Naylor Publishing (1963).
- Latimer, John, Burma: The Forgotten War, John Murray, (2004). ISBN 0-7195-6576-6
- Ogburn Jr, Charlton The Marauders, New York: Harper & Row (1956)
- Weston, Logan, "The Fightin' Preacher", Vision Press (1992) ISBN 0-9628579-7-1.
Bacaan lanjut
- MERRILL'S MARAUDERS February – May 1944. United States Army Center of Military History. 1990 [1945]. CMH Pub 100-4.
Pautan luar
Wikimedia Commons mempunyai media berkaitan: Merrill's Marauders. |
- Office of the US Surgeon General: Office of Medical History: Book 5, The Marauders and the microbes index
- US Army Rangers: History: Merrill's Marauders (WWII)
- marauder.org
- OSS Detachment 101 in Burma: see GALAHAD section Diarkibkan 2009-07-20 di Wayback Machine
- Command and General Staff College – US Army Combined Arms Center
- Merrill's Marauders – Roll of honour, awards and images
- Intelligence Operations of OSS Detachment 101 Diarkibkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine
- Galahad: Intelligence Aspects Diarkibkan 2018-11-25 di Wayback Machine
- "The Dead End Kids"
- "Tales of Merrill's Marauders"
- Filem pendek "Merrill's Marauders (1944)" ini boleh didapati untuk muat turun percuma di Internet Archive.
- One of last surviving WWII ‘Merrill’s Marauders’ finally receives Bronze Star Diarkibkan 2015-04-03 di Wayback Machine
- "European Center of Military History"
- "Documentary on Roy Matsumoto who served with Merrill's Maruders"