At Camp Frank D. Merrill, nestled in the rugged terrain of Northern Georgia, the U.S. Army's 5th Ranger Training Battalion, ...

He was honorably discharged in December 1945 after the deactivation of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Drake returned to Hawley and worked for the Ashland Tree Company.

Joseph Drake, 100, of Hawley, is one of five surviving U.S. Army Rangers who served in World War II. He received a Congressional Gold Medal recently.

Matt Cunningham Matt Cunningham, EVP of Product at Availity, spent nine years in the Army in light and mechanized infantry units, including the 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Officers of the 1st Ranger Battalion in Scotland. Captain Roy Murray, the first from the left in the front row, would later become the senior Ranger on the Dieppe Raid, F Company commander, and ...

The Ranger company I was with, Alpha Company of 1st Battalion — 75th Infantry, had five Rangers killed and six wounded. Mark Yamane, an M60 machine gunner in my platoon, was one of the first to die.

Kershaw was the commander of the First Ranger Battalion at that time. “That was the kind of noncommissioned officer Gunny was— leading by example, in the most difficult circumstances.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 26: D-Day veterans, former commander of 1st Ranger Battalion retired Army Ranger Sgt. Joseph J. Drake (L) and retired Army Sgt. John Wardell (R) attend a ceremony on Capitol ...