Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This documentary details Merrill's Marauders, an elite American jungle commando unit in World War II. It covers their formation from volunteers, their intense training under British General Orde Wingate, and their brutal, continuous combat against the Japanese Imperial Division in the treacherous Burmese jungle.

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