Alamo Scouts 6th Army (COPY)

Worn from:
November 1943 - November 1945

This is an excellent replica of the original

Named for his life-long association with San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo

Formed as the U.S. Sixth Army’s special reconnaissance unit
in World War II, the Alamo Scouts were organized on Fergusson
Island, New Guinea, on 28 November 1943. The Scouts conducted
reconnaissance and intelligence gathering in the Southwest
Pacific Theater under the personal command of then LTG Walter
Krueger, Commanding General, Sixth Army.

The Scouts were disbanded without ceremony at Kyoto, Japan, in
November 1945, never to be reconstituted. In 1988, the Alamo
Scouts were awarded the Special Forces shoulder tab for their
wartime service and included in the lineage of the today’s
U.S. Army Special Forces.