Brazilian Expeditionary Force in WW2

i read what i can about WW2 and found this intresting.

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force or BEF (Portuguese: Força Expedicionária Brasileira, or FEB) was a 25,300-man force that the Brazilian Navy, Army and Air Force formed to fight alongside the Allied forces in the World War II. Brazil was the only South American country to participate in the war.

The Brazilian Army and Air Force fought in Italy and the Navy in the Atlantic Ocean. During the eight months of the campaign, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, including two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks. During the War, Brazil lost 948 of its own men killed in action across all three services.


here is the wikipedia link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Expeditionary_Force_(FEB)

Last edited June 29, 2009 at 8:09 PM by HostileAmerican

cool. I bet brazilians and us Brits would get confused in a conversation about the BEF lol

I believe Argentina had a small role in the war. I do know as a fact that Germany sent them supplies.

yeam im Brasilian, i told that on another post here hehe, but i see you made your homework, quite nice
we brasilians ty for that :)

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You just forgot to mention that the FEB as we call (Força Expedicionária Brasileira) was following command from the 5th US Army (thats cause the FEB was small compared of the 200-300 thousands americans, so the Allies command tought it would be confusing two commands on that Italy part, i think was something like that the reason...)

, so we brasilians and americans fought side by side against the Axis on Italy :)

Last edited February 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM by gustavowizard