
Etiket: forces
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![Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jsc97y6b30ug1.jpeg)
Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]

![Staff Sergeant George A. Kaufman replacing a road sign from ‘Adolf Hitler Str.’ to ‘Roosevelt Blvd.’ in the German town of Krefeld shortly after its capture by Allied forces. The street was later renamed to Rheinstraße. (1945) [2505×2000]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/505lxu4npqrg1.jpeg)
![BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) from the 345th Guards Air Assault Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment – of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) – in Abkhazia, during a ceasefire, c. August, 1993. [2072 x 1171]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/60f974j5gxsg1.jpeg)

![Korean soldiers killed in action during a battle with U.S. forces in the Incheon region in 1871 [610 x 466]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/qhdfxhglhvsg1.jpeg)

![The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces troops in gas masks prepare for an advance in the rubble of Shanghai, China, 1937. [1080×859]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gh63g33dhrug1.png)

![The 1938 bombing of Barcelona by Axis-supported Nationalist forces. [2048×1364]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/hw0jl54dj6vg1.png)

![Labor leaders and activists Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong, joining forces to fight against the exploitation of farm workers and demand rights. They revolutionized the labor movement – 1960s [505×729]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/l9x961x3j5vg1-scaled.jpeg)

![A young Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) soldier accused of looting and murder is bound to a telegraph pole before facing the firing squad. Photo by Patrick Robert (November 21st, 1992) [612×419]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ndv66ohu4xvg1.jpeg)

![Six USS Hancock (CV-19) TBM bombers fly near Okinawa, while supporting the invasion forces, 4 April 1945. [1080×883]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/8hgwjeips1wg1.jpeg)

![British forces safeguarding the Abadan oil refinery factory, 1940s WW2 (Persia) [762×800]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ylho20p0w4wg1.jpeg)
