by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Oct 22, 2019 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
Chips was a German Shepherd-Collie-Siberian Husky mix in the American army during WWII. During the invasion of Sicily in 1943, Chips and his handler were pinned down by an Italian machine-gun. Chips broke from his handler and jumped into the Italian pillbox, attacking...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | May 1, 2019 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
Antis is the only dog who officially was allowed to fly with his master in World War II. He was found as a just weaned German Shepherd puppy in no-mans land in France in 1940, after his future master crashed landed near the locked home he had been abandoned in. From...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 30, 2018 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
An Alsatian and Collie cross, Bing made more than 20 parachute jumps in World War II. He joined the British army in 1944, and his first action was in Normandy on D-Day. It wasn’t all smooth sailing – he had to be ‘helped’ out of the plane with a...