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Elements of one of the Portuguese Companies in training with Lewis Machine guns prepared for anti-aircraft defense.
Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong, circa 1937-1938.

António Fragoeiro

The first report that involves Portuguese and Lusodescendants in Switzerland, something I also have been working on. With the help of of the son of Lt. James Mahon,navigator and crew member in the...

Lieutenant Francisco Vicente Vieira Ribeiro, one of the Portuguese "HKVDC" taken prisoner during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in December 1941. Pre-war photograph (image courtesy of Denis...

In fairly good condition. The tank was originaly recovered almost complete, now just being restored in the Reuenthal Museum.

Resident Vehicle in Swiss Full Reuenthal Museum Collection, Switzerland.
Currently being restored.

Hello forum members!
I recently introduced the "American Forces" sub section in my websited.
Counting with relatives and family members of the service men with help on story and photographs....

The "Stug from Militracks". Resident vehicle from Full Reuenthal Museum collection, Switzerland.

Sham Shui Po barracks were used as a camp by the Japanese.

My investigation (on going) work on the portuguese volunteer companies of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
Page is also available in english and is based on family contacts.

Hong Kong -...

The battle for survival and moral of the portuguese elements of the Hong Kong Volunteers Defence Corps at the Sham Shui Po japanese prisoner of war camp.
My article and their story.

The invisible...

More than five hundred Portuguese civilians lived interned in Australia during World War Two.
This is part one of my investigation on their story.

Portuguese internees in Australia - Portugal...

My work, story and account of Stanley Conceição, a survivor of the "Thai-Burma" railway and one of many Lusodescendants "caught" by the war and conquest of Singapore by Japanese forces.

The...

Wonderful postcool militaria Thanks !
Are these your documents ?

António

David Medeiros

Birth - 17 March 1927
Mother - Emília Tavares Ferreira Medeiros
Father - Marion Medeiros

RIP - 15 October 1996

CPL US ARMY
Guard at the Nürnberg Trials

Alfred Pinho

Birth - 21 October 1921
Mother - Mary Pinho
Father - unknown

MIA - 26 February 1944

EM3 US NAVY
USS Grayback

The Azorean, Sergeant José Silveira before being sent to Vietnam.
Unfortunately, José died in combat on January 2, 1968, 5 months after arriving in Vietnam.

Joseph Costa Jr.

Birth - 3 September 1921
Father - José Machado Costa
Mother - Maria Hilda Coelho Costa

KIA

Normandy - 27 July 1944

Theresa Pereira

Portuguese, born on the island of São Jorge, Azores.
Trucker in the US Women's Army Corps.
During 1942, she transported military equipment from base to base, in American...

Hi, everyone !

As some of you might know we have been investigating the presence of Portuguese service members in all branches of Allied Nations and its forces during the second world war and the...

The situations and conditions of the interments would vary but the usual would be :

Officers sent to a 5 star hotel in Davos
The regular soldier would be sent to an interment camp in Lucerne....

The night of 15 April 1943 was marked in the memory of the people of the small village of Birmenstorf.
Around 00:43 a big bang followed by a fire alarmed the residents of the small town of...

It is, a very rare example, only six units are known in the world
I will post it very soon.
António

Sergeant Robert Edwin Freitas
Luso - descendant
Origin - California
Army
Birth - 16 September 1941
Father - Eugene Manuel Freitas
Mother - Virginia Gonsalves

KIA

German V1 flying bomb.

With few repairs or restorations, this example was stored in its almost original condition.

It was acquired by the Swiss army in the late 1960s, off the hands of a...

San Barnaba Church Square, Venice.

In this same square in 1938, an hallucinating chase took place.

To prevent the Grail from falling into the wrong hands, especially the Nazis, elements of the...