Merrill’s Marauder and three-time recipient of Combat Infantry Badge dies at age 99
By WYATT OLSON
STARS AND STRIPES • May 24, 2022
Gilbert Howland, who commanded a machine gun unit with the famed Merrill’s Marauders in Burma during World War II and went on to earn Combat Infantry Badges in Korea and Vietnam, died Thursday in Hamilton, N.J. He was 99.
His death leaves only two living veterans out of the roughly 3,000 original Marauders, whose behind-the-lines exploits against Japanese occupiers in Burma earned the unit a Congressional Gold Medal that will be awarded during a ceremony on Wednesday.
He was the third Marauder veteran to die in less than a month.
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