BRAZIL: Unanimous

Twenty rugged Brazilian flyers, veterans of the Allied campaign in Italy, sat in a conference room in Washington's Pentagon Building. Asked a reporter: "Are you going to fight Japan now?"

"Well," answered Lieut. Alberto Martins Torres, "90% of us would love to go."

"What about the other 10%?"

"They were killed in Italy."

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