BRAZIL IN WW2
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Expeditionary Force
They were very reluctant when committing troops about the war, Brazilian politicians decided that their country’s direct participation would be very good for their status after the war. In order to make Brazil a “special ally” of the United States, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force started as a political project. Britain opposed the involvement of Brazilian troops partly because of troops of too many nationalities in the Mediterranean. There were doubts that the Brazilian Expeditionary Force would be deployed in combat and that´s where the nickname "the Smoking Cobras" came from. And there was also a Brazilian saying, equal to “pigs might fly,” saying that it would be more likely for a snake to smoke than for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to be deployed. Due to that, the BEF sort of logo was a coiled cobra, smoking a pipe.