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History: In the early 1940s, the United States Army chose a former homicide detective named Ben Hunter to lead a new Special Forces team to fight the threat of the Axis powers. Unlike more conventional military units like Easy Co. or the Haunted Tank, Lt. Hunter's team was considered an expendable party. He culled his soldiers from the riff raff of an army prison stockade – all of whom had served time as hardened criminals in their civilian life. Among his recruits was the excessively violent Brute, a con-man who appropriately took to calling himself Snake-Oil, a revenge-crazed soldier from the Woman's Army Corps named Heller, a pick-pocket named Light Fingers, a former acrobat named Juggler and several others.
Hunter’s Hellcats executed several intense missions during the waning years of World War II operating in both the Pacific and European theaters. The group was dissolved in 1945 shortly following the surrender of Japan to allied forces. The members of Hunter's Hellcats went their separate ways to eke out a new life for themselves in the post-war civilian world. Lt. Hunter remained with the U.S. Army and ultimately achieved the rank of Colonel. Hunter eventually married and gave birth to twin sons, Nick and Phil. The siblings followed in their father's footsteps, each of them forging their own reputations during both the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
The fate of the remaining Hellcats, or whether they are even still alive remains unknown.
Equipment: None known.
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