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Student Research Documents for Dogs

Use the information on the following Primary Source Documents to complete your Animal Heroes Graphic Organizer on DOGS.Slide2

Dog Document # 1

French dogsled team for transportation of wounded in the Vosges, France

“Clambering up cervices where no horse could go, light enough not to break the crusting of the snow, a squad of dogs could between them draw a ton of mail, ammunition, light guns, food or medical supplies.” (Cooper, p. 85

)

Picture Source: New York Times, 01/28/1917

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-452

Text Source: Cooper, J. (1983).

Animals in war

. London: Heinemann.Slide3

Dog Document # 2

Belgian machine gun dogs

“Dogs had many other duties in the First World War. In Belgium, everything was pressed into service, including the country’s staunch draught dogs to pull machine guns.” (Cooper, p. 83)

“…their work was very dangerous. An officer rushing forward would select a suitable gun position. When he gave the signal, the dogs would leap up and race the run carriages toward him at full gallop. The gun would be lifted off and set in the firing while another soldier rushed the dog to safety. The Belgium gunners grew very attached to their solid, stumpy tailed dogs, groomed them every day, and slept with them lying across their legs, for warmth at night.” (Cooper, p. 83-84

)

Picture Source: The Clash of Nations: Its Causes and Consequences, Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, 1914

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-492

Text Source: Cooper, J. (1983).

Animals in war

. London: Heinemann.Slide4

Dog Document # 3

British outpost reading a message delivered by a messenger dog

“The advantage of the messenger dog was that he could bring messages through three times faster than a man. He was also less of a target for the enemy, and in bad conditions he was light enough to creep round the rim of a shell hole. If he fell in, not being weighted down by bulky gear, he could swim across. When the telephone wires were down, and it was too dark for signaling, and too foggy or wet or dark for pigeons, dogs were the only things that got through.” ( Cooper p. 78)

Picture Source: The Book of History-The World's Greatest War-Vol. XVII, The Grolier Society, New York, 1920

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-497

Text Source: Cooper, J. (1983).

Animals in war

. London: Heinemann.Slide5

Dog Document # 4

German dogs used as messengers

“In the years leading up to World War I, most European countries built up military dog training schools. Germany had been experimenting with dogs since 1870, subsidizing a network of village clubs which specialized in breeding and training dogs for army work. Even more ironically, Germans had been buying up the best British breeds, so that when war broke out, they had 6,000 dogs straining at the leash for active service. The British had one: an Airedale who went to France as a guard dog with the Second battalion, Norfolk Regiment and was killed in action on the Aisne. Britain, in fact, was the last country to set up a war dog school.” (Cooper, p. 73-74

)

Picture Source: Germany's Fighting Machine, The

Bobbs

-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, 1914

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-1046

Text Source: Cooper, J. (1983).

Animals in war

. London: Heinemann.Slide6

Dog Document # 5

Getting bandages from kit of British Dog

In World War I:

“Dogs were particularly useful for missions in No Man’s Land. After battles, as hundreds of soldiers lay injured among the blood and barbed wire, special ambulance dogs were sent to carry them food and medical supplies. Staying low and creeping from cover to cover, these dogs not only save the soldiers’ lives, but gave comfort to men stranded alone in the battlefield. The French army used over 3,000 ambulance dogs, and they are thought to have saved the lives of around 10,000 men.” (George, Jones,

Charman

, & Kelly, p. 20-21

)

Source: Library of Congress (George Grantham Bain Collection)

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-1639

Text Source: George, I., Jones,

R.l

.,

Charman

, T.C., & Kelly, A. (2006).Animals at war. London:

Usborne

.Slide7

Dog Document # 6

German dog wearing the Iron Cross, awarded for saving his regiment by warning them of a Russian night

attack

Source: New York Times, 03/14/1915

URL:

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-3220Slide8

Dog Document # 7

Sergeant Stubby, the most decorated dog of World War I, captured a German spy and outranked his owner.

“In 1917, a stray puppy wandered onto the Yale University campus, where members of the 102nd Infantry Regiment were training. The pit bull mix won over the unit with his antics, participating in drills and even learning how to salute with his right paw. Private J. Robert Conroy adopted the dog, named him Stubby and smuggled him to the front lines in France. There, exposure to mustard gas left Stubby highly sensitive to the noxious fumes and able to warn the 102nd of imminent attacks. He also learned to locate wounded soldiers during patrols. One day, Stubby spotted a German spy and attacked the bewildered man until reinforcements arrived; the achievement earned him the rank of sergeant. In his 18 months of service, Stubby participated in 17 battles, survived a series of wounds and provided a much-needed boost of morale to his fellow soldiers. After the war he returned to the United States with Conroy (who never made it past corporal himself) and became a national icon, leading parades and receiving awards until his death in 1926.”

Source: http://www.history.com/news/2011/12/22/war-animals-from-horses-to-glowworms-7-incredible-facts/Slide9

Dog Document # 8

"The French war dogs are divided into five classes, each of which performs a special type of work. There are sentinel dogs, patrol dogs, ambulance dogs, dispatch dogs and drought dogs. In all these departments of military activity they have proved their worth."

Dogs

on the Western Front

Source: Vanity Fair, 1916

URL:

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/World_War_One_AnimalsSlide10

Dog Document # 9

Normal dog collar, but with additional leather flap and buckle under which a paper message was trapped

.

Source: Imperial War Museum

URL:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30005869

Dog collar containing a message canister, worn by German messenger dogs trained to work on the Western Front in the First World War

.

Source: Imperial War Museum

URL:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30005926Slide11

Dog Document # 10

YAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945.

part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION"

(photographs)

Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

A mine-detection team, aided by their 'sniffer' dog, at work on

Carpiquet

airfield, near Caen, Normandy, following its capture on 9 July 1944.

“The real brainchild of World War II, however, was the mine dog. Mine dogs were far more effective than the metal detector, in that they could detect mines made of plastic, wood, glass (as well as metal) , and also recognize when earth had been recently dug up.” (Cooper, p. 90-91)

“The Russians also used mine dogs extensively. One mongrel, called

Zucha

, on one occasion found 2,000 mines in eighteen days. So important were his services that when an aerodrome needed clearing he always arrived by plane with his master. Within a few hours, the area would be rendered safe.” (Cooper, p. 91)

Picture Source: Imperial War Museum

URL:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205012594?filter%5BeventString%5D%5B0%5D=%22Caen%201944%2C%20North%20West%20Europe%2C%20Second%20World%20War%22

Text Source: Cooper, J. (1983).

Animals in war

. London: Heinemann.Slide12

Dog Document # 11

Bamse (1937 - 22 July 1944) was a St. Bernard that became the mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom for Norway during World War II. He served on the coastal patrol vessel, Thorodd based in Hammerfest, Norway in February 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign in the Norwegian Sea. He also saw time in

Rosyth

, Montrose, and Dundee, Scotland. He is famous for his guard at the front gun tower on

Thorodd

. To keep him safe, a special medal helmet was constructed for him. He was known for rescuing a crew member that had fallen overboard and saving a man who was attacked with a knife. He broke up fights and calmed the crew.

He

was awarded the

Norges

Hundeorden

(a special award for dogs), PSDA Gold Medal in 2006, has a life sized statue in Montrose, Scotland and

Honningsvag

, Norway, a website, and several books

.

Source: Montrose Heritage

Bamse

Trust

Project, Wikipedia,

BBC News

URL:

http://www.bamsemontrose.co.uk/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamse_(St._Bernard)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/5204182.stmSlide13

Dog Document #12

“Smoky's tricks enabled her to become a hero in her own right by helping engineers to build an airbase at Lingayen Gulf Luzon, (Philippines

) a crucial airfield for

Allied war planes.

Early in the Luzon campaign, the Signal

Corps needed

to run a telegraph wire through a 70-foot-long (21 m) pipe that was 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter. Soil had sifted through the corrugated sections at the pipe

joining,

filling as much as half of the pipe, giving Smoky only four inches of headway in some places. As Wynne himself told the story when he appeared on

NBC-TV after

World War II:

“

I tied a string (tied to the wire) to

Smoky's

collar and ran to the other end of the culvert . . . (Smoky) made a few steps in and then ran back. `Come, Smoky,' I said sharply, and she started through again. When she was about 10 feet in, the string caught up and she looked over her shoulder as much as to say `what's holding us up there?' The string loosened from the snag and she came on again. By now the dust was rising from the shuffle of her paws as she crawled through the dirt and mold and I could no longer see her. I called and pleaded, not knowing for certain whether she was coming or not. At last, about 20 feet away, I saw two little amber eyes and heard a faint whimpering sound . . . at 15 feet away, she broke into a run. We were so happy at

Smoky's

success that we patted and praised her for a full five

minutes.

Smoky’s

work prevented the need to have approximately 250 ground crewman move around and keep operational, 40 United States

fighters and

reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger and possibly the peril of destruction by enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed by this little dog in minutes

.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_(dog)Slide14

Dog Document #13

“The more lives dogs saved during the Second World War, the more they were put to use. In the spring of 1942, the British SAS (Special Air Service) began training dogs, nicknamed ‘para-pups’, to jump from planes with specially fitted parachutes. When they were safely on the ground, the SAS soldiers detached the para-pups’s parachutes, so the dogs could lead them into enemy territory, signaling whenever it detected danger.

The

most famous

para

-pup of the Second World War was Rob, a black and white collie from

Shropshire

, in England. Between 1942 and 1945, Rob made twenty parachute jumps with the SAS in North Africa and Italy.

The jumps took place at night, so Rob wore black make-up to camouflage his white patches of fur. The

para

-pup had amazing senses f smell and hearing. Creeping silently ahead of the soldiers, he would suddenly stop, prick up his ears and stand with his tail rigid. It was his signal that the enemy was close.” (George, Jones,

Charman

, & Kelly. p. 28-31

)

Source: George, I., Jones,

R.l

.,

Charman

, T.C., & Kelly, A. (2006).Animals at war. London:

Usborne

.