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“Always there are dogs in every invasion. There is a dog still on the beach today, still pitifully looking for his masters." (Ernie Pyle, A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish/17 June 1944)

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WW1 - A French member of the 92nd Infantry Regiment holds an Eagle Owl in a trench. Circa 1916

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Soldiers say their farewells at Pennsylvania Station New York,1943. Photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt (via)

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Soldier’s goodbye & Bobbie the cat, c.1939-1945 by Sam Hood (via)

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An officer of Landw.J.R.68 surrounded by kittens south of Metz, France, 1915.

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A German soldiers with his dog, c. 1916 

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A Canadian soldier with ‘Tabby’, his unit’s mascot, on Salisbury Plain on 27 September 1914.

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So the Lafayette Escadrille had lion mascots right which predictably resulted in 99% of the pilots getting injured at some point during the war

But look how much they fucking loved Raoul Lufbery

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A British volunteer of Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps holding her regiment’s mascot.

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Pilot and observer inside the cockpit of a two-man biplane, in France, during World War I. Holding up the regimental mascot of a pet dog and with big smiles on their faces, a pilot and an observer are pictured before setting out on a journey over enemy lines. 

Original reads: ‘OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A cheery pilot and observer with their mascot pup ready for a flight over the German lines.’

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A British soldier and a jackass

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The Landship Recruit, c. 1917 (via Retronaut)

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Canadian troops, behind the front lines, playing with their dog mascots/1916

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Waffen SS Major Otto Kumm playing with some animals, c. 1941

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Russian soldiers sleeping with puppy, Prague, Georgy Lipskerov 1945.

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May I Have This Dance?

Lance Cpl. Nathaniel Miller and Military Working Dog Beano give each other a 'chest bump' before working a training scenario at the Yuma Proving Grounds July 26. The duo was part of a demonstration for some of the Army Test and Evaluation Command's top officers, enlisted and civilian personnel. They demonstrated locating explosives and aggression work amid the sounds of machine-gun fire. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aaron Diamant)