The Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) is often overlooked but the BEF's 25,000 troops made up the lone South American participation in World War II. For instance, it was 65 years ago today that Brazilian soldiers helped drive out Nazi forces from the Italian town of Montese. Several hundred BEF troops died in combat and their efforts fighting along with the Allies have been memorialized back home.
The following is a U.S. propaganda video made in 1943 that examined Brazil's military and how their soldiers are “in the war all the way”:
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