Pete
09-16-2012, 04:25
World War II vets who fought in Burma honored at Airborne & Special Operations Museum
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/09/16/1204347?sac=fo.military
"W.B. Woodruff was a 19-year-old private first class marching mile after mile through the rugged mountains of Burma alongside a mule he called Jack.
It was 1944, and Woodruff was among about 7,000 soldiers and 3,000 mules walking single-file through jungle paths full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and across cold rivers with chest-high water. Collectively, the special operators were known as the MARS task force, artillerymen sent to capture the Burma Road to open a supply route to China to support the fight against Japan....................."
They had a pretty good turn out for a Saturday AM.
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/09/16/1204347?sac=fo.military
"W.B. Woodruff was a 19-year-old private first class marching mile after mile through the rugged mountains of Burma alongside a mule he called Jack.
It was 1944, and Woodruff was among about 7,000 soldiers and 3,000 mules walking single-file through jungle paths full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and across cold rivers with chest-high water. Collectively, the special operators were known as the MARS task force, artillerymen sent to capture the Burma Road to open a supply route to China to support the fight against Japan....................."
They had a pretty good turn out for a Saturday AM.