On this day in 1942, the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United States Army begins training dogs for the newly established War Dog Program, or K-9 Corps. Well over a million dogs served on both sides during World War I, carrying messages along the complex network of trenches and providing some measure of psychological comfort to the soldiers. The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin, an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in 1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hells River. As the first bona fide animal movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the little-known German Shepherd breed famous across the country.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:17:05 +0000
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