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Legends seldom fit the facts comfortably. The military outfit called Merrill's Marauders - 3,000 American soldiers who ranged hundreds of miles through the Burmese rain forest fighting vastly superior Japanese forces - stands up admirably to the legend that surrounds it, as veteran Ogburn capably shows. The first American force to fight on the Asian mainland since the Boxer Rebellion, the warriors of Galahad - as the three battalions under General Frank Merrill were code-named - suffered terribly in their long campaign over what Winston Churchill called the most forbidding fighting country imaginable.Writes Ogburn, not only were they felled by bullets, but they also endur"