An item reported that 3 provisional US Marine companies each numbering 50 men including 4 officers arrived in Brazil and stationed at respectively Belem do Para, Natal and Recife. The J.I.C. commented that the men officially were classified as technicians with as additional task protecting US equipment and to cooperate primarly with the Brazilian air force and secondarily with the army. Their armament consisted of pistols, rifles and light machine guns was stored in boxes so nobody could object against armed foreign military entering Brazil.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 11 dated 21 December 1941.
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