Retired Brazilian Army Officer Performs Ground-breaking Research on World War II at Carlisle’s US Army Heritage and Education Center

 
 
Retired Brazilian Army Officer Performs Ground-breaking Research on
World War II at Carlisle’s US Army Heritage and Education Center   
 
(CARLISLE) July 7, 2026 --The Army Heritage Center Foundation was honored to host COL Claudio Rosty, a retired Brazilian Army officer who was awarded the foundation’s Whitman research grant.
 
The grant, named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John William Whitman, is bestowed annually upon an independent researcher who is working on an under-explored topic of military history. 
 
COL Rosty is studying the interaction between the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and the 10^th Mountain Division in the Italian campaign, which contributed to the Allies’ victory in World War II.
 
During that conflict, Brazilian and Italian soldiers primarily interacted as enemies in the Italian Campaign. Brazil sent the 25,000-strong Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB), nicknamed the "Smoking Snakes", to fight alongside the Allies. They fought against Nazi and Fascist Italian forces, ultimately capturing over 20,000 enemy troops.
 
Brazil entered the war in 1942 after German U-boats sank multiple Brazilian merchant ships. The FEB arrived in Italy in 1944 and was attached to the US Fifth Army.
 
COL Rosty was accompanied by his daughter as he conducted a week of research in the Ridgway Library. 
 
 
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