Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
The Burma theater was a donkey's paradise: look at the 5307th Composite Unit "Merrills Marauders".
My first wife's father was one of the mule skinners with Merril's Marauders. I may be misremembering, but he claimed that they were able to provide almost all the logistic support for the unit. (He still had his McClellan saddle. I admired the fortitude it took to spend hours on the d--- thing. )