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This is an interesting photo, I haven't seen a 'US Gurkha Ranger' before, anybody know anything about them?

I haven't been able to locate anything at all on Gurhka's in US service but I can see that the nameboard in the photo also has "OSS" around the image of the kukri.

I have been able to find that the OSS had a unit called Detachment 101 that trained and deployed some 10,000 guerrilla fighters, mainly Kachin Burmese against the Japanese in Burma.

Although I can't link this image to Detachment 101, I am pretty convinced that it portrays a member of that detachment in OSS service, given that the unit deployed "mainly" Kachin which would suggest there were other indigenous fighters also used.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-...ence/kent-csi/vol4no3/html/v04i3a11p_0001.htm

https://www.burmastar.org.uk/stories/detachment-101/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/yankee-guerrillas-in-burma/