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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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* British Major John Acland returning from a [[American Revolution| tough service]] in New York in 1777 (otherwise known as [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast| "The Year of the Bloody Sevens"]]) walked into an [[Smoky Gentlemen's Club|officer's club]] in London. While he was there a patron who of course [[Miles Gloriosus|had never fought against Americans]] waxed eloquently about the [[You Rebel Scum|cowardice and incompetence]] of Americans. That was naturally a [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet| grave insult]] not only to Americans but to Acland who after all had survived a conspicuously unpleasant campaign. As a result they met the following morning [[Ten Paces and Turn]] and Aclund rather ironically died defending his former enemies against an insult. |
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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. |
* 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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