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Today I learned of Herman Perry, a African-American WWII soldier who fled into the jungles of Indian/Burma after killing his CO in 1944. During this time he ended up marrying the chief's daughter of the Naga Tribe that took him in. He was eventually caught and executed in 1945.

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