back to the United States. After five major battles and seventeen minor engagements only two men survived without being hospitalized or killed. One was a Lieutenant Phil Weld, who later became famous for his single-handed ocean racing of small sailboats. The other was Colonel Charles N. Hunter. After the war After World War II, Colonel Hunter was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 4th Army and Commanding Officer of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He retired to Cheyenne, Wyoming, home of his wife, Don Mae, who died February 27, 1970, of heart failure. Of their three daughters, only his youngest, Sara is alive today. Anne died in 1959 and Sue in 1977. Quotation Bibliography Charles Newton Hunter, Galahad (San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 1963) Charlton Ogburn, The Marauders (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956) Charles N. Hunter, AGF Report of Overseas Observations with Units in C.B.I. February 17, 1945. See also Merrill's Marauders China Burma India Theater of World War II Frank Merrill Joseph Stilwell Long range penetration United States Army Rangers Former United States special operations units Special forces Roy Matsumoto David Richardson Charlton Ogburn Footnotes American non-fiction writers 1906 births 1978 deaths United States Military Academy alumni United States Army Rangers People from Oneida, New York 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Historians from New York (state) American male non-fiction writers