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* Survivors of the USS Johnston after the [[You Shall Not Pass|Samar Island Action]] in Leyte Gulf claim to have been [[Japanese Politeness|saluted]] by a retreating Japanese ship. Either the witness was delusional from hours in the water or the commander was an [[Good Old Ways|old school]] [[Officer and a Gentleman]] rather then a member of the new-fangled millitarist cult. In any case that was what was reported. |
* Survivors of the USS Johnston after the [[You Shall Not Pass|Samar Island Action]] in Leyte Gulf claim to have been [[Japanese Politeness|saluted]] by a retreating Japanese ship. Either the witness was delusional from hours in the water or the commander was an [[Good Old Ways|old school]] [[Officer and a Gentleman]] rather then a member of the new-fangled millitarist cult. In any case that was what was reported. |
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* Brazil sent an Expeditionary Force of soldiers to Europe in World War II. Arlindo Lúcio da Silva, Geraldo Baeta da Cruz and Geraldo Rodrigues de Souza, separated from their unit, were surrounded by a German force in Italy on 14 April 1945. [[Last Stand|Refusing to surrender, they fought to their deaths]], [[Dying Moment of Awesome|making a bayonet charge when their ammunition was gone]]. Burying them, the Germans placed a cross over their graves inscribed 'Drei brasilianische Helden' (Three Brazilian Heroes). |
* Brazil sent an Expeditionary Force of soldiers to Europe in World War II. Arlindo Lúcio da Silva, Geraldo Baeta da Cruz and Geraldo Rodrigues de Souza, separated from their unit, were surrounded by a German force in Italy on 14 April 1945. [[Last Stand|Refusing to surrender, they fought to their deaths]], [[Dying Moment of Awesome|making a bayonet charge when their ammunition was gone]]. Burying them, the Germans placed a cross over their graves inscribed 'Drei brasilianische Helden' (Three Brazilian Heroes). |
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* A lighthearted version of this was Eddie Rickenbacker's recollection of a series of fights with a German scout plane in the chapter ''Rumpler Number 16'' from his memoirs ''Fighting the Flying Circus''. He had a running series of encounters over several patrols but was unable to bring it down. |
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