Animals in War

Throughout military history, critters hold gone to war alongside humans. Millions of horses, mules and donkeys. During World War II, something like 3,000 horses, when by the Army Quartermaster Corps, enabled the shore patrol to make up a larger number of ground. “The U.S. Coast Guard expended additionally horses as opposed to any a good deal more branch of the U.S. Military in WWII.” Most offers and a excessive situation of artillery got significantly horse-drawn, and a mounted infantry squadron patrolled something like six miles in front of most any German infantry division. “These mounted patrol troops got referred to as the ‘eyes and ears of such a units.’”

The Photos in currently pass on enter images on the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan.