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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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 Nazi nuclear energy program - Unit 371, Japanese scientists who experimented with bioweapons - Blackshirts from Fascist Italy - Storm troopers, Gestapo, and SS from Germany and Nazi-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 Www@QuestionHome@Com 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 Www@QuestionHome@Com The Mafia in Italy Fascist party in Italy Nazi party in Germany Bolsheviks in Russia Www@QuestionHome@Com Try the Gestapo, Hitler's private police force!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |