Talk:Brazilian Expeditionary Force

message: It is known that the nickname comes from a comment maade about Brazil being unlike to fighting Germany, but I am not sure one can confirm this comment was attributed to Hitler. Anyone care to comment? --Pinnecco 18:39, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname COBRAS FUMANTES 

message: Someone pasted an entired unformated chunck of text over the section about the Brazilian Airforce in WWII. Since then the text was never formated or carefully reviewed, and it really looks like some text plagiarised from another uncredited source. I wonder if we should revert it. --Pinnecco 18:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So, should we revert this section, since the text was clearly plagiarised? We should at least develop this section to clean/tidy it up, and to --Pinnecco 10:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section About the Airforce 

message: Quote: "The Brazilian soldiers, after that, were directed to the base of the Apennines, where they would spend the next months, facing the harsh winter and the resistance of the Bernhard and Gustav lines."
The combination BERNHARD & GUSTAV Line was at Cassino and Liri Valley front.  It was breached in May 1944.  The GOTHIC Line was located at the passes of the Apennine Mountains.  It was attacked on Sept 13, 1944 and it was breached within a week but the fighting continued until October 24.  The 5th Army spent the winter on the northern side of the Apennine Mtn range, which was past the GOTHIC Line.
Steve
www.custermen.com
:Just picked up on this. Totally agree that since this article says that Brazilians arrived in Italy in July 44 they could have had no part in Cassino / Gustav / Bernhardt which culminated in that May. I've removed that reference and will try to do some work on the Gothic fighting to see if we can clarify the rest. Stephen Kirrage 17:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gustav Line 

message: This was never mentioned in US World History history class. We got the impression that only the US and the Canadians fought the bad guys in WW2. Totally surprising and informative. Edison 04:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well... In Russia/USSR WW2 is called the Great Patriotic War, and until the "opening" (followed by the dissolution) of the USSR, virtually no one knew what D-Day was. I guess there are III Sides To Every Story after all ;) --Pinnecco 09:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: God Bless'um

message: There are excelent pictures of the FEB on the Portuguese Wikipedia. Anyone care to publish them here? --Pinnecco 10:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excelent pictures 

message: An anonymous user keeps converting sections of this into pigeon. I don't doubt that that he knows what he's talking about content-wise but it is clear that his first language is not English and this is the English Wikipedia.
Please stop. The tidyings that have been done do not change the sense - all they do is ensure that that meaning is conveyed to English readers.
Bagunceiro (talk) 10:02, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Language 

message: Sorry but the changes did by Bagunceiro ( A WORD THAT IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE MEANS: DISORDERLY OR CARELESS PERSON, WHAT IT MEANS A LOT BY ITSELF ) in the 1st paragraph of Campaign section completely change the mean and contradict all writing before and bagunceiro it's obvious that English it's not yr 1st language too as well as the most of people who collaborate and usufruct the Wiki around the World so pleas, stop try to impress people with what you've learned in the school not in Street  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cybershore (talk • contribs) 17:05, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misinterpretation 

message: 201.81.234.213, please stop this persistent reverting. What you are changing the text to is not English - it does NOT have a similar sound to the Portuguese because it doesn't convey any meaning. In this coloquial context "mais fácil" does not translate as as the literal "easier", and the prepositions are essential in English.
I have assumed up to now that your edits are in good faith and that you genuinely believe that what you are writing is good English. But the persistence is starting to make it look like vandalism. I shall report it as such if it does not cease. Bagunceiro (talk) 11:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persistent Revertion to non-English  

message: "I have assumed up to now that your edits are in good faith and that you genuinely believe that what you are writing is good English."
Bagunceiro, I´m sure that other part think the same, but I also believe that is not efficient for this FREE AND DEMOCRATIC encyclopedia that anyone, no matter who are, try to impose her or his own personal vision Here, much less threatening or intimidating anyone who don't agree with your points !  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cybershore (talk • contribs) 16:41, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Wiki's essential 

message: the first paragraph says 948 Brazilians were killed, but the section says over 1000 died.  Perhaps 948 refers to Italy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.117.146 (talk) 02:26, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: casualties

message: Come here to suggest the suppression of translation request in relation to the wikipedia version in Portuguese, since the differences between the two versions now, is related to the presence at Wikipedia in Portuguese, of sections that pertain only to the Brazilian specifications, as for example an section of Brazilian Expeditionary Force vets whom later became famous, for Brazilians... Another section that deals with the Brazilian military units that would have been derived from the FEB (but without references), and so on. Ie, the whole story regarding the main body (containing references) has been already translated to English. 187.38.105.235 (talk) 00:45, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, the present edit of the section on BEF veterans of Lusophone Wikipedia, besides being short, it seems really interesting. In relation to the other section, the fact that some of vets were famous only or mainly in Brazil also is no reason for not including this section, since I believe, one of the goals of this encyclopedia is to spread knowledge. However, the section on the Brazilian military units that claims would derive from BEF, really seems a dispensable section. That is, each section case is unique. 189.33.201.215 (talk) 07:58, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Subject line says it all.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:12, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done --Redrose64 (talk) 18:43, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add protection padlock template 

message: I would recommend this article to be restructured. Most of the paragraphs are extremely hard to make sense of and one is only able to do so if one has some knowledge of the Brazilian language as most of it was written following a Portuguese style of writing. Some paragraphs are extremely repetitive, others have words missing. RodrigoCruzatti (talk) 09:06, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuration and Rephrasing 

message: Among the former Western allies there is a widespread lack of understanding what "neutrality" means. Neutrality is the strict duty of a country not to provide any military or economic help or grant any strategic advantages to only one side in a conflict between third parties.
Given that, the whole paragraph
"At the beginning of 1942, Brazil permitted the US to set up air bases on their territory in return for the offer by the US to encourage the formation of an iron industry - Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, in Brazil. The US bases were located in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte', where the city of Natal hosted part of the US Navy's VP-52. In addition, US Task Force 3 established itself in Brazil. This included a squadron equipped to attack submarines and merchant vessels attempting to trade with Japan."
gives proof that the next paragraph starts with a lie:
"Although Brazil remained neutral..."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:6A:CE6C:2B20:919E:804C:6030:52CB (talk) 08:41, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazilian "neutrality" 

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message: the artical states that the MB was credited with sinking 11 U-boats, but the links to the wiki pages of those vessels show that only one of the boats was sunk by a Brazilian unit, the rest were by US aircraft. 2A00:23C8:A783:C501:7271:B249:694F:EF9D (talk) 07:42, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Submarine sinkings