| En Avant | 20 Mar 2010 3:32 p.m. PST |
They were there too and some people decided to play a wargame with them.
So, there is a South American WW2 game… link PDF link Hope you enjoy it.
Amicalement
Armand |
| Kaoschallenged | 20 Mar 2010 6:30 p.m. PST |
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| dmclellan | 20 Mar 2010 8:31 p.m. PST |
My father-in -law was in 10th Mountain Division 1945 when they and the BEF attacked the Gothic Line in early 1945. He was a counterbattery FO for 10th Mountain artillery. |
 Legion 4  | 20 Mar 2010 9:31 p.m. PST |
Unfortunately very few know of Brazil's involvement in WWII … Glad you mentioned it Armand. And it looks like someone had a good time with the wargame. |
| Kaoschallenged | 20 Mar 2010 9:39 p.m. PST |
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| Richard Baber | 21 Mar 2010 2:24 a.m. PST |
I wrote a big article on this that appeared in Miniature Wargames magazine (and the SOTCW Journal too)a few years back. My article on the Brazilian pilots is still floating around on the internet – Society of Airwargamers site I think. |
| Martin Rapier | 21 Mar 2010 4:38 a.m. PST |
And very interesting articles they were too Richard. The main proglem wth Brazilians is painting the national markings, all those teeny stars…. |
| Richard Baber | 21 Mar 2010 9:29 a.m. PST |
Coming from Martin, I take that as a great compliment – cheers :-) When are you going to write something new for The Journal? Going back to topic.
I actually had an email from Brazil just before Christmas asking me for info on Brazilian pilots involved in a fatal training accident in the US prior to them shipping overseas to Italy. The writer was a relative and assumed i was a Brazilian historian :-) Sadly I couldn`t help as this hadn`t come up in my research……. |
| Rudysnelson | 22 Mar 2010 2:24 p.m. PST |
Most older wargamers found out about the Brazilians in Italy in WW2 due to their playing peice in the ANzio game. \The Military historical artwork series also has a Barzilian unit pictured in one print. Those of us who hung around National Guard armories in the 1960s saw them there first. |
| donlowry | 22 Mar 2010 3:04 p.m. PST |
Most older wargamers found out about the Brazilians in Italy in WW2 due to their playing peice in the ANzio game. </>Yep. I did. |
| Richard Baber | 23 Mar 2010 1:54 a.m. PST |
I first found out about them when i read Douglas Orgill`s "Gothic Line" when at school in the late 1970s. Then later Greg Novak wrote an orbat for Command Decision in their Command Post magazine (I suppose this was mid-1980s). The units commander Gen. (later Marshall) J.B.Mascarenhas de Moraes wrote a book about the units experiances which was translated into English by the US Army. My copy has stamps from the Chemical Weapons School at Fort McCellan, Alabama and the Sergeant Majors Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas. |
| Rudysnelson | 23 Mar 2010 7:12 a.m. PST |
When both the MP school , the WAC school and MP school left Ft MAc, those were some book sales I hated to miss. Each had a library. Some books went to the new location and some went to the consolidated Ft Mac library. However a lot of books were sold to the public. Then when Ft Mac closed the consolidated library gave some to various schools in the area and sold the rest. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 31 Mar 2010 7:19 a.m. PST |
There was an article on them in Miniature Wargames magazine a year or two ago I think? |
| RockyRusso | 31 Mar 2010 10:06 a.m. PST |
Hi I realized the story while doing one of the P47s they flew for an IPMS event! Rocky |
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