Fascist Italians soldiers captured by Brazilians troops getting in line to be interrogated at 92nd US Infantry Division Headquarters. Italy, October, 1944.
“Canarinho” returned
Lt Raymundo da Costa Canário, “Canarinho”, a Brazilian pilot of the 1º Grupo de Aviação de Caça (1st Fighter Group) of the FAB-Força Aérea Brasileira (Brazilian Air Force) with a background of 50 war missions over the Italy, returned to base after the loss of 128cm (more than four feet) of the right wing because the impact with a factory’s chimney during a very low level attack.
Rare picture of the german 88 acquired by Brazilian Army from Krupp in 1938 in Rio de Janeiro 1943
General Otto Fretter Pico, commander of 148º infantry division, surrendered the Brazilian troops , April 30 1945 18:30 h.
German 148º infantry division surrender to brazilian
Brazilian WW2 M4 Tank on a museum
PaK-43 captured by FEB
Brazilian soldiers, compliment Italian civilians. Mazzarozza 1945.
Soldier Francisco de Paula bombing german positions. It's written "The snake is smoking". This expression is a reference to BEF's symbol: a snake that smokes.
Soldiers of Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB - Division of the Brazilian Army in the campaign of Italy) receiving instructions.
I meant that as in: If you had a stack of the beautiful things on a table in front of you today, then you would have one hell of an expensive collection. How much it costed to make a MP44 or how much it was worth at the time i dont know. However, looking at the current prices of old war weapons, the sum of the MP44's under and on the table in front of him range around 500k-1000k. They are worth a lot these days and you can buy a good car for the price of an MP44. It'll still be worth it IMO
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/20451-cost-of-ww2-weapons/
Forum discussion of the cost of production for items made during WW2. Price for production wasnt always constant, varies per source, and may or may not be government controlled (and i say that in which a ton of resources were used to produce certain items for much cheaper compared to other weapons - since heavy production started to center around that item).