Completar a seguinte frase: Em 1943, o General Joseph Stilwell pediu o destacamento de forças especiais do Exército dos EUA para apoiar as forças regulares do Exército Chinês sob seu comando. General George Marshall authorized a "Long Range Penetration Force", recruited from U.S. Army troops trained in jungle warfare in Panama and the continental United States, as well as personnel with recent combat experience in the
<unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> The unit was formally named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), but became famous as "Merrill's Marauders"; it carried out operations in Burma in 1944.