The Chaplain Who Carried Merrill's Marauders Out of Burma #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]A chaplain in Burma walked 75 miles through enemy jungle in 1944 carrying wounded men on his back while the rest of Merrill's Marauders pushed toward Myitkyina.

[00:00:09]Father Stewart Emmett McGowan refused evacuation three times staying with the rear guard as malaria and typhus tore through the unit. He conducted last rites for dying soldiers under Japanese mortar fire then picked up a rifle and held the line himself. When the Marauders finally took the airfield fewer than 200 of the original 3,000 could still walk. McGowan carried 17 men out alive and buried 32 where they fell.