Bizarre Brazil

In 2002 Brazil has celebrated 90 year of Civil Aviation. This postcard show Cap. Antonio Guedes Muniz and his biplane, Muniz-7 (M-7), in Campos dos Afonsos, Rio de Janeiro (1935).

I am preparing a long post about my dear “Esquadrilha da Fumaça”, the Brazilian Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, it is not ready yet… so take a look at those old pictures, long ago, in Sao Jose do Rio Preto (I am not sure about the place…) only to say hellooo to Rico.
Official site of Esquadrão de Demonstração Aérea - EDA.

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Few people know, but Brazil sent 25 thousand of their Brancaleone Army troops to Europe and some 50 fighter pilots in World War II. This is an endless (and somewhat boring for non war-nerdish people) subject to discuss and, from time to time, we’ll be publishing some stuff under the World War II tag. Enjoy bellow the video of a movie from the USA State Department teaching 1940’s Americans who the heck was to join them in the War effort. This video is so bizarre even for us Brazilians, depicting an almost totally rural country with an unbelievable gullibility of manners, it worth 10 minutes of your life to watch. At least they did their duties well (in fact, in some campaigns, Brazilian soldiers exceeded by far the expectations) and now we can mock our Argentinian neighbors about their chickenshitness in the conflict.

By the way, in Portuguese, Brazil is a male word. It’s somewhat strange to hear “she” referring to the country.

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