[cowofzot]

Came across this Germans sniper dog link & got to thinking about the Pigeon documentary I saw & wondered what other animals were used in the war. Reindeer in Finland & Lappland, Horses obviously.

The Dogs of Ousseltia



Monday, Mar. 01, 1943



Last week Lieut. Paul Robarge and two sergeants left the U.S. lines in central Tunisia to scout enemy positions. On the eastern side of a small valley separating Axis and Allied positions, Robarge and his men were startled by a medium-sized white dog, which stood stock-still and pointed toward them.



A few minutes later enemy rifle fire crippled one of the sergeants in both legs.

http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/Krieghund.htm





Finland...
Using guerrilla fighters on skis, even reindeer to haul supplied on sleds,

http://www.alternatehistory.com/changin ... er_war.htm

[Redlom Xof]

Russians planted explosives on to dogs and and would train them to think food was underneath tanks, when the dogs got underneath a German tank they would remote control explode them. The eastern front was pretty fucked up lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

[cowofzot]

Bat bombs were bomb-shaped casings with numerous compartments, each containing a Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats which would then roost in eaves and attics. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper construction of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target.


The plan was to release bat bombs over Japanese cities having widely-dispersed industrial targets. The bats would spread far from the point of release due to the relatively high altitude of their release, then at dawn they would hide in buildings across the city. Shortly thereafter built-in timers would ignite the bombs, causing widespread fires and chaos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

[Ozzy]

During the WW2, the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of Polish Armed Forces in the West 's most famous regular was one Private Wojtek who was a Syrian Brown Bear adopted by the 22nd while they were stationed in Persia.