Detroit evening times., 1941-11-23

ing several British officers led by Captain English
] devised dogs Well, not really new, but
thorough procedures OF fairly old practices have
been successful in the past.
Each Of number Of dogs is attached a particular
maehne-gun crew of two men The dogs are generally
bloodhounds retrevers large terriers and German sheep
dogs During the heat of battle the animals act
during fls in the fighting they help
bring up less militant supplies.
man, crouchng makes fairly good target.
he will until his spine aches he still stands
about inches high According To military experts that
20 25 inches much under mass fire Crawling
his belly with pack of ammunition strapped to his leg
dragging from harness about his shoulders mans
progress to be really effective during the heat
of battle
But a really well trained dog bring up much
400 OF ammunition at time in saddle pockets
strapped about its middle dogs taught
a crouch with appreciable slack of pace
Running thus dog normally p inches high stands up but
or inches A barbed wire ENHANCEMENT may take
Is minutes to cut and crawl through dog either
crawls through far too small for man or leaps
hvefoot obstacle in less than two seconds and is
on his way again.
About 200 dogs have been trained well that
each delivers ammunition supplies only to his
disregards calls temptations of other
machine gun gangs that Naz outfit could possibly
high jack British ammunition He has been trained to keep
Of all obstacles If physically possible IN
syntheticaly wounded anmalsa leg strapped out
of usehave still gotten through to their own crew Some
dogs blndfolded and their the meanwhile
shifted 100 yards The dogs reached their obctves
just the
few dogs have been trained to report the death OF
When the dog finds his human friends lying in
active gun and cannot them he draws
handkerchief from the hip pocket Of either and
the base with this symbol of casualty The
handkerchief carries small number for crew Identified
the event Of capture the British ommies
expected to destroy this.
Larger animals like Saint Bernards and Great Danes
in smaller numbers, at this time being taught
to transport small weapons machine guns spare rifles
and 2Omm cannon as well as carry ammunition
appropriate guns Their training is just precise that
of the smaller dogs and to date as successful
St Bernards have been taught to carry wounded
stretcher sung between them. They approach
lying the ground and nee to lower the strecher
to mount the strecher they rush him off
the dressing station If the after three minutes
makes to get the stretcher they leave him
in another wounded soldier who be helped
to the field hospital
Uncle Sans bitzkreg just busy training
military dogs Alaskan huskies have received the most at
tention year They been taught TO fetch
the British animals in Libya and Egypt and
they've taught to bring tiny to the front
lines where specially trained inantrymen within ten min
utes become artllerss They've been taught TO fetch
food water aid kits to the front lines despite
the racing cracke Of machine gun fire all about
them.
It is in defense similar parts Of the New
World that husky will play his greatest role Where
neither tractor haul big gun load of
supplies in snow to 40 inches deep the dogs will do
the Job rocky terrain they again of service Where
il half an hour to climb steep rocky
hill ammunition for the gun crew on top any trained
dog will do the Job under nine minutes. He'll carry so
per cent as ammunition and, making three
trips in time eventually deliver 14O cent more
muniton
All these uses dogs merely modern developments
Of old schemes forgotten discarded The primi
tive Germans fought Caesar and other Roman gen
erals used their dogs in several ways Dogs not only
red TO the rear attached stretchers wounded
rades taught to enter the fray and attack with
their sharp teeth Some of them also carried sharpened
sticks on their backs
In our own Civil War both sides used bloodhounds &c
locate enemy scouting forces During the Revolution
cooniss many times surprised the enemy after their
scent had been caught by dogs In the Indian troubles
of the Century the coonists used dogs sentries
against Indian and it is from Colonsts diary
that mentions this scheme that King Frederick of Ger
many got bright idea and trained dogs for his army