Miltary use of animals WWII.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

I'll betcha none of them did it more than once though.

Bet none of these critters were "Volunteers"..

Wound Labs: The Department of Defense has operated "wound labs" since 1957. At these sites, conscious or semiconscious animals are suspended from slings and shot with high-powered weapons to inflict battlelike injuries for military surgical practice. In 1983, in response to public pressure, Congress limited the use of dogs in these labs, but countless goats, pigs, and sheep are still being shot, and at least one laboratory continues to shoot cats. At the Army's Fort Sam Houston "Goat Lab," goats are hung upside down and shot in their hind legs. After physicians practice excising the wounds, any goat who survives is killed.(13)

Other forms of military experiments include subjecting animals to decompression sickness, weightlessness, drugs and alcohol, smoke inhalation, and pure oxygen inhalation.

This last paragraph was actually conducted in some of the Airmans messes on most Friday nights..and the only animals around was us..

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

also known as gas masks, for camels,dogs,pigeons,goats, horses
the rarest is the goat gas mask, USofA soldiers had to watch with gas masks on
a goat die in agony while the goat with the mask was OK, They switched to a movie in 1944. I have 7 different horse gas masks. there are gas masks for infants, babies, kids, parents and of course military. Sweden had a gas mask for every man woman and child in 1939. Pigeons won more military medals than horses or dogs or my relatives
dennis

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Dennis Gelean

Pigeons won more military medals than horses or dogs or my relatives
dennis

In Aust service, the bravery award to an animal (Dog, Bird, Horse, etc) is known as the Dickin Medal. What are the equivalents elsewhere?

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by Dennis Gelean

also known as gas masks, for camels,dogs,pigeons,goats, horses
the rarest is the goat gas mask, USofA soldiers had to watch with gas masks on
a goat die in agony while the goat with the mask was OK, They switched to a movie in 1944. I have 7 different horse gas masks. there are gas masks for infants, babies, kids, parents and of course military. Sweden had a gas mask for every man woman and child in 1939. Pigeons won more military medals than horses or dogs or my relatives
dennis

In my copy of "Defense Against Chemical Attack" (FM 21-40) dated September 7, 1942 there is an entire chapter devoted to protecting military animals from gas attack. They mention use of Horse Gas Masks M4 and M5 as well as a gas proof cover for the Pigeon Carrier complete with a bellows to refresh the air "twice every hour". Interesting stuff.

CHIMO! Derek