Dogs and the Military

[Pegasus6]

[Pegasus6]

Some mascot items! Enjoy!

 

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MAJ (RET) Michael Hart

@fbRenewHistory  

[RG 67]

Joe Lovelace with his scout dog Buck. He was a one man dog, wouldnt accept a new handler and the Army wouldnt let Joe take him home at EOT. Buck was euthanized, and Joe never owned another dog.  Buck was credited with saving many lives when deployed with Joe, who was also a tunnel rat.  Photo of a photo that hangs on the wall of honor in a restaurant in Joe's hometown.

[patches]

Korea September 1950. Tommy, mascot of the MP unit 1st Marine Division unit which he accompanied from the U.S., carries a collar of 30 caliber carbine bullets . Sgt. Harold Mackey (left) of Joliet, Ill., and (right) Cpl. Harry Brogdom Chattanooga, Tenn.

[patches]

[Bluehawk]

> 378th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 5/10/2024 at 6:28 PM, patches said:

 

Hollywood studio photograph - "Air Force" (1943)

Harry Carey, John Garfield, George Tobias, & Ward Wood

...and a small dog, "Tripoli", the Marines' mascot on Wake Island.

 

[patches]

10 hours ago, Salvage Sailor said:

 

Hollywood studio photograph - "Air Force" (1943)

Harry Carey, John Garfield, George Tobias, & Ward Wood

...and a small dog, "Tripoli", the Marines' mascot on Wake Island.

 

Yep LOL

 

Mr Moto.........

[aerialbridge]

Dog is GOD spelled backwards.   One of His best creations.  Cats are cool, too.    Airborne Daddy  1SGT and CMoH Leonard A. Funk, Jr. (1916-1992)  and a friend gonna  take a little trip over Europe during WW II.     Wonder if it was the pooch's first jump.  Thanks be to God for Dogs.    And this thread's the best.  

 

[mikie]

6 hours ago, aerialbridge said:

Dog is GOD spelled backwards.   One of His best creations.  Cats are cool, too.    Airborne Daddy  1SGT and CMoH Leonard A. Funk, Jr. (1916-1992)  and a friend gonna  take a little trip over Europe during WW II.     Wonder if it was the pooch's first jump.  Thanks be to God for Dogs.    And this thread's the best.  

 

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[JerseyDevil117]

Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella K-9 Handler 

[aerialbridge]

Great snapshot.   Practically "trick photography" as it looks like the canine warrior is charging out of a picture frame.    That would make a great poster if you have it high res.  Thanks for sharing. 

[GITom1944]

I don't think this has been posted before. Here is a dog aboard the submarine USS Catfish, SS-339 in April 1945. Screenshot taken from film footage that begins at 1:14 here https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79546 .

 

Tom

[doyler]

𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐄𝐘𝐓𝐄: October 17th - December 26th, 1944 

With a captured Japanese battle flag prominently displayed, these Coast Guardsmen watch the shoreline recede as the Coast Guard-manned invasion transport on which they are serving leaves after its second trip to the Leyte beachhead. Left to right, the men are: Coast Guardsman Floyd Hewitt, Baraboo; Coast Guardsman Combat Photographer Rene J. Prevost, of Milwaukee; Carl E. Peshel, Milwaukee. The Coast Guardsmen all are veterans of the invasions of the Marshalls, Guam, Peleliu as well as Leyte.
ORIGINAL  WARTIME CAPTION. (NARA) 

 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Hawaiian Division mascot sitting on Machine Gun cart

October 1921, Schofield Barracks, T.H.

[Salvage Sailor]

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. View of USS California (BB 44), taken a day or two after the Japanese raid. Bobolink, at left, USS Vireo (AM 52) and YW-10 are off the battleship's stern, assisting with efforts to keep her afloat
From the collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN, Ret. U.S. Navy photo NH 95569

 

USS BOBOLINK 

(AM-20/AT-131/ATO-131)

 

In September 1940, Bobolink joined the Train, Base Force, United States Fleet, at Pearl Harbor. She remained there until September 1942. Bobolink was present during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, laying in dock next to six destroyers near the district HQ. Following the attack, she served as a salvage vessel and minesweeper. Between 20 May and 2 July 1942, she was converted to an ocean-going tug (redesignated AT-131 on 1 June 1942).

 

 

Remaining at Pearl Harbor until September 1942, Bobolink then steamed to the South Pacific and operated out off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides; and Noumea, New Caledonia, as a tug until February 1944. In particular, she helped rescue survivors and assisted several crippled U.S. warships in the aftermath of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. She arrived at Long Beach, California, 4 March 1944 for overhaul and returned to Pearl Harbor on 29 June 1944. Bobolink was reclassified ATO-131 on 15 May 1944.

 

Crew of the BOBOLINK with their dog, South Pacific, 1943

 

She served in Hawaiian waters until the fall of 1945, and then returned to Mare Island Navy Yard, where she was decommissioned 22 February 1946. She was sold through the Maritime Commission 5 October 1946.

 

Bobolink received one battle star for operations during World War II.