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To: tumblindice

Hitler, WWIi, oh yeah—the world war Mexico sat out, hoping to make a deal with the Nazis ...


Yeah, didn’t Mexico finally declare war on Germany in 1944 or something like that? I will have to look it up to find out


44 posted on 02/26/2016 10:30:57 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: abigkahuna

I stand corrected: From Wikipedia:

Mexico declared war on Germany in 1942 after German submarines attacked the Mexican oil tankers Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro that were transporting crude oil to the United States. These attacks prompted President Manuel Ávila Camacho to declare war on the Axis powers.
Mexico formed Escuadrón 201 fighter squadron as part of the Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana (FAEM—”Mexican Expeditionary Air Force”). The squadron was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces and carried out tactical air support missions during the liberation of the main Philippine island of Luzon in the summer of 1945.[44]
Some 300,000 Mexican citizens went to the United States to work on farms and factories. Some 15,000 US nationals of Mexican origin and Mexican residents in the US enrolled in the US Armed Forces and fought in various fronts around the world.[45]


47 posted on 02/26/2016 10:35:23 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: abigkahuna
Mexico declared war on the Axis Powers on May 22, 1942, after losing some ships to German sub attacks. And they were one of only two Latin American countries that sent troops to fight overseas in that war. (Brazil was the other).

But V. Fox is still a first class pendejo.

50 posted on 02/26/2016 10:37:42 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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