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was composed of men from the "Deep South"

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Original U.S. WWII Scarce 5217th Reconnaissance Battalion “The Philippine Airborne” Theater-Made Uniform Patch Category_Flintlock Pistols was composed of men fromOriginal Item. Only One Available. During April 1943, Lt. Col. Courtney Whitney made a tour of the First and Second Filipino Infantry Regiments then training in the United States at Camp Beale and Camp Cooke, in California (now known as Beale AFB and Vandenburg AFB respectively). Whitney picked 700 men to be trained in Australia for secret missions behind Japanese lines in the Philippines. They were to become known as "Mission Men". The selected