Dogs in War Time
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
Dogs were first used in war by the Egyptians in 4000 BC. Although war dog training programs were reduced or canceled by the British and the Americans in the 1930s (but not the Germans, which was actually expanded in the days leading up to the European War), by 1942 dog training had picked up steam once again. During WW2, dogs were employed for a wide array of tasks, serving as sentries, as messengers, as propaganda pieces, even as suicide attackers. The below is a small collection of photographs of some of these four-legged participants of WW2.
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Sources:
Lisa Rogak, The Dogs of War
Wikipedia
Last Major Update: Aug 2010
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Winston Churchill, on the RAF