This story traces the early evolution of U.S. Army Rangers from their World War II origins through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Beginning with Merrill’s Marauders and the amphibious Ranger Battalions ...
In January 1944, two Ranger battalions walked into an ambush at Cisterna, Italy. Only six of 767 men escaped, forever reshaping the Army Rangers. On the morning of Jan. 30, 1944, two battalions of U.S ...