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** Hundreds of Irishmen just went to the UK to enlist, with entire battalions of the IRISH army resigning and enlisting in the BRITISH army (apocraphally). The Irish government turned a blind eye, though a few years before they were two insults away from open war.
** This is as close as a neutral country, like Ireland, can go to supposed to imprison shot-down airmen from both sides as POWS. They did that, but "unfortunately" Allied soldiers had a habit of managing to escaping back to Northern Ireland. Axis soldiers are stuck.
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* Although the Philippines gets overlooked a lot, they got their moments. One example was when the Filipino guerrillas were led by Captain Jaun Pajota in WW2, who were instrumental in the Raid at Cabanatuan that rescued hundreds of American POWs. While the American Rangers they were helping take the Japanese POW camps, Pajota and his men bore the full brunt of the Japanese counterattack and despite being outnumbered heavily in the use of a bazooka was even able to take out four Japanese tanks while in battle. The Japanese sustained 523 casualties total while the total casualties, including those injured and killed, of the Filipino guerrillas and the American Rangers numbered under 30. As Captain Robert Prince of the 6th Ranger Battalion, US Army explains: {{quote|"The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp...There was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge. They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us."}}
* The <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201st_Fighter_Squadron_(Mexico) Escuadrón 201]</ref> is basically a CMOA since it's the ''ONLY'' time Mexico fought on foreign shores. The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force is currently the only branch of the Mexican Armed Forces to ever fight on another country.
* Even though Taiwan was technically just a POW holding site, it deserves an honorable mention. During 1944, the American navy, the largest and strongest navy in the whole world at the time, didn't take it over. Why? Because the navy leader said: "We're not taking Taiwan; it's the unsinkable battleship." They skirted it and took Okinawa and the Philippines instead.
* After the defeat at Dieppe and the unsuccessful attempt to defend Hong Kong against Japan, the Canadians weren't ready to surrender. On D-Day, Canadian forces stormed Juno Beach with an opposition second to that of Omaha Beach where the Americans had landed. At the end, they progressed further into France than any of the Allies and they would proceed to librerate Belgium and Netherlands from Germany.
* Basically it's been established that in WW2, Denmark OWNED. Denmark knew they were too small to hold out against the Germans long. So, to save as many Danes as possible, the government capitulated. But not before they BURNED the entirety of the Danish Navy in Copenhagen's Harbor. This small Nordic nation, knowing it couldn't resist the might of the Third Reich BURNED THEIR OWN NAVY just so that it would not end up being used by the Nazi.
* The Most Serene Republic of San Marino, a delightful small republic of 24 square miles surrounded by Italy on all sides, populated at that time by approximately 10,000 people, provided safe haven against the Nazi prosecution for over 100,000 Italians and Jewish people. And the managed to remain neutral while doing so, no they weren't invaded. Turns out, when they said "Most Serene" means "Most Sovereign," they WEREN'T FRIGGIN' KIDDING!
== The Holocaust - Not One More ==
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