The 6th Ranger Battalion, a WWII American unit converted from the 98th Field Artillery Battalion, in the Asia-Pacific Theater, successfully raided the Japanese Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines on January 30, 1945, rescuing Allied prisoners of war.

The 98th Field Artillery Battalion was a WWII unit in the Asia-Pacific theater. In 1944, it was downsized and converted from an artillery unit into an infantry 6th Ranger Battalion.

The Alamo Scots, the US 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, were a World War II reconnaissance group tasked with intelligence gathering in the Asia-Pacific theater.