Brazil join the allies
posted in Armed Forces, Brazil viewed by foreigners, Neighbors, Videos, World War II by Rico Ferrari |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.
And some posters and pics. Click on them to a larger view:
“Today’s Brazil protects tomorrow’s Brazil”.
Our troops arriving in Italy.
The operations theater in Italian Apenines.
The major part of the Brazilian population was very angry at Germans, Germany, and their Axis buddies and anybody who resembled them in any way. In this pic you can see a fake Hitler lynching, circa 1941 at an University in Sao Paulo. This kind of things happened almost everywhere in the country and several business owned by German and Italian expats and descendants were boycotted, stoned or burnt to the ground by very pissed off mobs, specially after some schnapps torpedoes brought down a dozen Brazilian’s merchant fleet vessels.
“Brazil is present!”
The “Senta a Pua” air squadron preparing to take off in a mission in Italy.
