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[[Image:Asgp 542b.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Guard Booth, Finschafen Area, New Guinea (Signal Corps Photo)]]

[[Training camp]] and [[headquarter]]s of the [[Sixth United States Army|U.S. Sixth Army]] Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the [[Alamo Scouts]]. They served in the [[South West Pacific theatre of World War II|Southwest Pacific Theater]] during [[World War II]].

Formed as a top secret ad hoc unit by the [[Lieutenant General (United States)|lieutenant general]] commanding Sixth Army, [[Walter Krueger]], on 28 November 1943 to conduct raider and reconnaissance work in the Southwest Pacific, the [[Alamo Scouts]] performed 108 missions behind enemy lines without losing a single man killed or captured.  Of the more than 700 candidates selected for training, only 138 were retained as Alamo Scouts and were formed into elite six-to-seven man teams.

In less than seventeen months in the field the Alamo Scouts earned 118 combat decorations and numerous other awards.  The unit was unceremoniously disbanded in late November 1945 with a war record unmatched in United States military history.  In 1988 the Alamo Scouts were awarded the [[Special Forces Tab]] recognizing the unit as a forerunner of the modern Special Forces.

First Director of Training was Frederick W. Bradshaw, followed by Homer A. Williams, then by Gibson Niles.

There were nine training classes that lasted for six weeks each. Their locations were; two at Kalo Kalo, Fergusson Island, New Guinea. one at Mange Point, Finschafen Area, [[New Guinea]], two at Cape Kassoe, [[Jayapura|Hollandia]], [[Netherlands New Guinea|Dutch New Guinea]], one at the mouth of [[Abuyog, Leyte|Cadacan River]], on the [[Philippine|Philippine island]] of [[Leyte]], and three at Mabayo ([[U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay|Subic Bay]]) on the Philippine island of [[Luzon]].

==Notes==

===Sources===
[[Image:General douglas macarthur meets american indian troops wwii military pacific navajo pima island hopping.JPG|right|thumb|General [[Douglas MacArthur]] meeting  [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] troops, including graduates of the [[Alamo Scouts]] Training Center.]]

*''Silent Warriors of World War II, The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines'' by Lance Q. Zedric. Pathfinder Publishing 1995.
*''Silent No More, The Alamo Scouts In Their Own Words'' by Lance Zedric and Russ Blaise. War Room Press 2013.
*Johnson, Forrest Bryant.  ''Hour of Redemption: The Heroic WW II Saga of America's Most Daring POW Rescue''.  Warner Books, 2002.  Originally published in 1978.
*Russ Blaise, Executive Director/Board Chairman of the Alamo Scouts Historical Foundation.

==External links==
*[http://www.alamoscouts.org Official Home Page of the Alamo Scouts]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080109194157/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol3no4/html/v03i4a08p_0001.htm CIA, Center for the Study of Intelligence - Volume 3, Issue 4]

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