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Now here are some odd ball units:

2677th Office of Strategic Services Regiment

According to Shelby Stanton (WWII OOB), this unit was organized July 14, 1944 at Algiers under Fifth Army and was transferred to Caserta, Italy where it was absorbed into the OSS Operational Group Command on November 27, 1944. This unit even earned a battle honor: Rome-Arno.

Soooo, what did this unit actually do?

It seems, that no one really knows for sure. FOIA requests filed with the Department of the Army, Department of Defense and the CIA, all come back as either classified or information not available.

Best information that I've ever come across mention, in passing, that this was some kind of holding unit for reconnaissance and sabotage detachments. Problem with this is simply, why wouldn't the OSS simply operate this unit itself?

Next up is the 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion. This outfit served alongside the 2677th OSS Regt in the OSS Operational Group Command. A bit more is available about this unit. It was a holding unit for parachute-inserted reconnaissance teams that covered most of Italy and Yugoslavia. But like its fellow unit, lots of luck with the FOIA requests!

Alamo Scouts. This unit was the US Sixth's Army reconnaissance unit. It was a fairly small unit, perhaps 300 men at its largest, but it was responsible for conducting over sixty intelligence gathering missions in New Guinea and the Philippines.

Finally, the OSS strikes again with the Jingpaw or Kachin Rangers. OSS Detachment 101, stationed at New Delhi, India, recruited Kachin tribesmen in north-central Burma for a several operations around Mongkung and Heshi, Burma. By all accounts a fairly straight forward anti-Japanese guerilla outfit.