KarlinPhoenix wrote:CloakAndDagger wrote:I'll have to take a look at the footage when I get home (Youtube is blocked here), but it sounds like it could be Alamo Scout footage (they were a "color blind" unit), or possibly the forerunner to the Alamo Scouts, which was an Army-Navy joint force.
Named for his association with San Antonio, Texas, and love of the Alamo heritage, Krueger envisioned that the Alamo Scouts, consisting of small teams of highly trained volunteers, would operate deep behind enemy lines to provide intelligence-gathering and tactical reconnaissance in advance of Sixth U.S. Army landing operations.
From their first operational mission in the Admiralty Islands in February, 1944, to the end of World War II, the Alamo Scouts performed 106 known missions behind enemy lines in New Guinea and in the Philippines without losing a single man killed or captured.
Led by:
LTC Henry A. Mucci, Ranger Hall of Fame 1998
CPT James C. Fisher
CPT Robert W. Prince, Ranger Hall of Fame 1999"
Having watched the video now (Thanks, RangerX, for gluing it together!), I can rescind my remark about it maybe being Alamo Scout training, but having opened my big mouth, I feel compelled to correct some info in KarlinPhoenix's post (which he reposted from sixthrangers.com, as linked).
The 6th Army Rangers and the Alamo Scouts were separate units, but did indeed worked together on (probably) more than one occasion, most famously in the Cabanatuan POW Camp Raid. The Alamo Scouts were a 6th Army provisional unit established by 6th Army G-2 MG Walter Krueger on November 21, 1943. This followed a previous joint unit, 7th Amphibious Force Special Service #1, a.k.a. "The Amphibious Scouts" after U.S. Naval Intelligence pissed off Kreuger by forcibly detaining and interrogating an Army officer in the Amphibious Scouts. Kreuger placed LTC Frederick W. Bradshaw in command of the Alamo Scouts.
Of the Alamo Scouts that took part in the Cabanatuan Raid, their team Leaders were LT William E. Nellist, LT Thomas J. Rounsaville, and LT John M. Dove, with LT Rounsaville in over-all in charge of the Scout contigent as well as his own team. LTC Mucci was the mission (and Ranger) commander, CPT Fisher was the Ranger's surgeon, and CPT Prince was C Company commander. An additional platoon from F Company was lead by LT John P. Murphy. MAJ Robert Lapham commanded the Philipino guerilla contingent. (the sixthrangers.com post gives a roster of only the Rangers that participated).
All-in-all, some great history here, both the 6th Rangers and the Alamo Scouts.
My info is from
Shadows in the Jungle by Larry Alexander. (I just got through reading it about 2 weeks ago.)