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TI: Your unit was named the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional.

RM: Yeah, uh-huh.

TI: Later on it became, it was known as Merrill's Marauders.

RM: Before that, the code name was Galahad.

TI: Galahad, right, that was your code name, Galahad.

RM: Yeah.

TI: And then later on people started calling you Merrill's Marauders.

RM: Yeah.

TI: How did that name Merrill's Marauders come about?

RM: Well, some, I just don't recall, but reporter for the stateside's paper, reporter, he just call that and so pick up since being Merrill is a general, then his, they say, Merrill's Raider or somethin' like that but they come out that words Marauder so then people start to call Marauder. It's easier than instead of 5307, you have to remember that, but General Merrill's men, so Merrill's Marauders they call Marauders so that became usage, then became official title.

TI: Okay, good.

RM: So now the 75th Ranger Corps carried our names, Marauders, so...

TI: Okay, good.

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