PATCH US ARMY 5307th COMPOSITE UNIT PROV. " MERRILL'S MARAUDERS "

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THIS ITEM MEASURES 2.5 IN X 3.5 IN.
Officially designated as the
5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)
code name "GALAHAD", the unit later became popularly known as
MERRILL'S MARAUDERS
, named after its leader, Brigadier General Frank Merrill. Organized into combat teams, two to each battalion, the Marauder volunteers came from a variety of theatres of operation. Some came from Stateside cadres; some from the jungles of Panama and Trinidad; and the remainder were battle-scarred veterans of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and New Guinea campaigns. In India some Signal Corps and Air Corps personnel were added, as well as pack troops with mules.
After preliminary training operations undertaken in great secrecy in the jungles of India, about 600 men were detached as a rear echelon HQ to remain in India to handle the soon-to-be vital air-drop link between the six Marauder combat teams (400 to a team) and the Air Transport Command. Color-coded Red, White, Blue, Green, Orange and Khaki, the remaining 240 Marauders began their March up the Ledo Road and over the outlying ranges of the Himalayan Mountains into Burma.
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