Max Wolff Filho was a Brazilian Army

Brazilian Army

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 sergeant

Sergeant

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, a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force

Brazilian Expeditionary Force

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force or BEF was a force about 25,700 men and women arranged by the Army and Air Force to fight alongside the Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II...

 who fought in Italy

Italy

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 in World War II

World War II

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Max Wolff was born in Rio Negro, Paraná

Paraná (state)

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, Brazil

Brazil

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. He enlisted in 1930 in the city of Curitiba

Curitiba

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, joining the 15th Hunters Battalion. During World War II he was a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, under the command of the US 15th Army Group. He arrived in Italy in 1944. A few days before his death, Wolff was awarded the US Bronze Star

Bronze Star Medal

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  by General Lucian Truscott

Lucian Truscott

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. First Sergeant Max Wolff died from German machine-gun fire in Riva de Biscaia, near Montese

Montese

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, during a reconnaissance

Reconnaissance

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 patrol. At the time of his death, Wolff was already a widower and left a 10-year old daughter. He was posthumously promoted to Second Lieutenant for his bravery.

Medals and awards

• Combat Cross First Class (Brazilian)
• War Medal (Brazilian)
• Campaign Medal (Brazilian)
• Sangue do Brasil (Blood of Brazil)
•   Bronze Star
  Bronze Star Medal
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  (US)

External links

• EsSA Max Wolff Filho (Portuguese)
• Governo do Paraná (Portuguese)