Last veteran of America's famed WWII jungle fighting unit 'Merrill's Marauders' dies at 99

• Russell Hamler, reputed to be the last living member of Merrill's Marauders, died at 99.
• The Marauders hacked and fought through hundreds of miles of jungle to capture a Japanese airfield.
• Hamler was wounded by a mortar and survived in a foxhole for over 10 days until he was evacuated.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The reputed last member of the famed American jungle fighting unit in World War II nicknamed the Merrill's Marauders has died.

Russell Hamler, 99, died on Tuesday, his son Jeffrey said. He did not give a cause of death.