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Rubber Soldiers : The Forgotten Army that Saved the Allies in WWII

— By Gary Neeleman and Rose Neeleman

The Rubber Soldiers were an army of 55,000 men from the Brazilian northeast, who were sent to the Amazon basin to harvest rubber for the Allied War effort under an agreement between Brazil and the US. Approximately 26,000 of these men died in the Amazon of malaria, yellow fever, and other...