Photos Pets,Animals in AO,train area,excercise area,camp,barrack,

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Tygrys (Tiger), the dog mascot serving with Polish gunners of American descent, likes to feel he is giving a hand at the breach of the 25 pounder field gun.

 

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Ukrainian drone operator and a cat in a dugout

 

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3rd Brigade Air Liaison Officer, Squadron Leader Ace Bonaventura, making friends during Exercise Brolga Afloat

 

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Finnish 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (113. Kev.It.Ptri) and their mascot 'Roope', June 28, 1942, Syväri.

 

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Bangor-class minesweeper HMCS Wasaga (J162) mascot Bobby enjoys the left over turkey on Christmas Day 1942

 

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Ukraine

 

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Ukraine (117th Separate Mechanized Brigade - 117 окрема механізована бригада)

 

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Ukraine (117th Separate Mechanized Brigade - 117 окрема механізована бригада)

 

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General Montgomery with his pets, two puppies and a cage of canaries (in the background), in Normandy - July 6, 1944
The puppy on the right was named “Rommel”

 

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Turkish CatMando 444th meow mech brigade sergant Kedi

 

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Luftwaffe soldier with his dog. Normandy, 1944

 

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An unnamed British Royal Artillery soldier with his kitten, c1917. Animals were often brought into the trenches, sometimes as a mascot for the regiment, or in this case the kitten may likely be from a local farm or destroyed village.

© Colourised by Tom Marshall (PhotograFix)