#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Gabriel Kinney - VA News

Kinney and his fellow soldiers walked through the Himalayan Mountains for four months, carrying supplies on their backs and on donkeys. During the journey, the men also fought an elite Japanese division in five major and 30 minor battles, engaging in the longest continuous period of jungle combat in American history. Members of the group fell victim to disease and starvation in addition to warfare. Only 200 men remained by the time the Burmese airfield was reached and captured on May 17, 1944.