Rare Photos of War Dogs
Mankind's folly, suffered by our best friends
Two Airedale terriers in training in the UK (1939)
Parisians walk their gas mask-equipped dogs. 1939.
An American soldier and dog participate in drills in Germany. 1955.
American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Pennisula, Guam, 1944.
Bandages retrieved from the kit of a British Dog, ca. 1915.
A messenger dog with a spool attached to a harness for laying out new electric line in September of 1917.
.Belgian refugees leaving Brussels, their belongings in a wagon pulled by a dog, 1914.
German Red Cross Dogs head to the front.
Interwar German army in training exercises. 1920s.
A dog-handler reads a message brought by a messenger dog, who had just swum across a canal in France, during World War I.
A dog trained to search for wounded soldiers while under fire, 1915.
War animals carrying war animals a dispatch dog in Belgium fitted with a pigeon basket for transporting carrier pigeons to the front line.
Source: Rarehistoricalphotos.com