Photo: Muskegon Chronicle, October 5, 1940

I believe the long hard march through the jungle was one feat which should go down in military history as one of the greatest accomplishments any army ever made. We went through country that was classed as impassible by the (Japanese) and the (Australians) – and it damned near was!¹

–Russell Broner, in a letter to his mother

1. Dave LeMieux | Muskegon Chronicle. “Looking back at the Broner brothers’ World War II service, plus letter to mom.” MLive.com, 27 July 2015, www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/07/looking_back_at_the_broner_bro.html.