
Etiket: Italy
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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]
![A 240mm Howitzer of Battery B, 697th Field Artillery Battalion, shortly before firing on German positions at Mignano, Italy. January 1944. [3000×2404]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/8w34c8ag0nwg1-scaled.jpeg)
