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flotsam

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3. Very Controversial

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 04:46 PM

Oct 2020

" Of the 2,750 to enter Burma, only two were left alive who had never been hospitalized with wounds or major
illness. None of the horses and only 41 mules survived."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill%27s_Marauders

Now imagine being sent to a unit with a casualty rate exceeding 99%...

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