Rubber Soldiers: The Forgotten Army that Saved the Allies in WWII by Gary Neeleman & Rose Neeleman NUTTERVILLE

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Rubber Soldiers: The Forgotten Army that Saved the Allies in WWII by Gary Neeleman & Rose Neeleman NUTTERVILLEThe 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 jungle afflictions. Many of the original tappers are still alive, now in their late nineties, and living in slums in major Amazonian cities, still awaiting