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What are some notable world war II groups? ?

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For example, tuskegee airmen or the people who were on the enola g*y, or medal of honor recipients

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  1. Darby's Rangers -> http://darbysrangers.tripod.com/id4.htm

    Merrill's Marauders -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill's_M...

    The Chindits -> http://www.chindits.info/

    The Alpini -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpini


  2. Try the Gestapo,  Hitler's private police force.

  3. Here's some random groups off the top of my head, some famous and some obscure:

    - Navajo codetalkers from the U.S.

    - Ghurkas from South Asia

    - King's African Rifles from East Africa

    - Afrika Korps from Germany & Italy

    - Allied scientists working on the Manhattan Project

    - Axis scientists working on the n**i nuclear energy program

    - Unit 371, Japanese scientists who experimented with bioweapons

    - Blackshirts from Fascist Italy

    - Storm troopers, Gestapo, and SS from Germany and n**i-occupied Europe

    - Muslim divisions of the SS recruited by Mohammad al-Husayni in Bosnia

    - Sledge Patrol, 15 Danish soldiers that, with help from the US Coast Guard, fended off German landings in Greenland and protected vital weather stations

    - Finnish ski troops, and Soviet ski troops from Siberia

    - the French Resistance and countless other ragtag resistance movements (Polish, Yugoslav, Ethiopian, etc.)

    - Spy agencies - OSS from the United States, Abwehr in Germany, MI5/MI6 in the U.K., various precursors to the KGB in the Soviet Union

    - The IRA which collaborated with German spies in Ireland

    - Chechen Rebels who collaborated with German paratroopers in Southern Russia  

  4. The Mafia in Italy

    Fascist  party in Italy

    n**i party in Germany

    Bolsheviks in Russia

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