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...DEWITT MATTHEWS Vineville Baptist Church Macon, Ga...
...Merrill's spirit, like that of his men, was greater than his body could stand. Struck down with a coronary thrombosis, for three days he refused to be evacuated, was finally ordered out. As he recuperated in India, the Marauders' 2nd Battalion was trapped at Nhpum Ga for eleven days, and cut in half. Trying to relieve their comrades, the 3rd Battalion was also stunned and exhausted before Stilwell's main Chinese offensive forced back the Japanese...
...discover had been far too harshly carried out by overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
...year ago, my father's funeral procession, led by two of the city's finest mounted policemen, was routed down the main street right through the heart of town. Thus the city of Griffin, Ga. paid its final respects to one of its oldest Negro citizens. Despite all the puny efforts of Gauleiter "Hummon" Talmadge, the people in the South will still abide by the laws of the nation; and if he would pull off that storm trooper's uniform, he wouldn't be so bad himself...
EDISON MARSHALL Augusta, Ga...