The Alamo Scouts — formally known as the U.S. Sixth Army Special Reconnaissance Unit — were an elite fighting force in World War II. Their mission: to go behind enemy lines. These daring men ...
The patch was what Rick called the “Holy Grail of WWII patches,” an Alamo Scouts WWII military patch, and the original owner’s granddaughter was trying to sell it. The seller wanted $6500 ...
They are a dozen of potentially fewer than 20 surviving members of the Alamo Scouts, the forerunners of the Army Special Forces “Green Berets.” They crept deep behind Japanese lines in the ...