At age 98 and living his last days in a hospice facility in northern Michigan, Henry C. Smith wanted to set the Army's record straight on what happened 75 years ago in the jungles of Burma.
Sgt. Smith — a member of the famed Merrill's Marauders that waged guerrilla warfare on the occupying Japanese — was leading an intelligence and reconnaissance patrol of roughly a dozen men in April 1944.
They chanced upon an enemy patrol perhaps 20 times their size, and the Marauders fought it out for several days before running out of ammunition.
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