2018年5月28日 · But perhaps more importantly, cats often served as a morale boost for soldiers. Many cats were adopted as "mascots" whether it was in the trenches of WWI, aboard battleships, planes or tanks.

2024年6月13日 · Giving the soldiers their love was, I believe an important factor of cats in the wars. They were also deployed as messengers - famously during the Christmas ceasefire in 1914 they carried messages in their collars between Allied and German soldiers! A famous cat of WWI was Pitouchi, who was adopted by Belgian Lieutenant Lekeux.

During WW2 a German bomber was shot down near Newport, in South Wales, and was found to have a cat on board. He became the first feline prisoner of war when he was taken to an animal shelter in the area, run by Our Dumb Friends' League (later part of the PDSA).

Often pets and mascots were adopted along the way by soldiers and sailors who found an abandoned cat or kitten. After the smoke of battle had cleared on Betio Island, Tarawa, this tiny kitten crept out from beneath a wrecked Japanese tank, to receive a drink from a US Marine.

2023年12月28日 · One of the most notable examples of a feline mascot during World War II was “Unsinkable Sam,” also known as “Oscar.” This resilient cat survived the sinking of three separate ships during the war – the German battleship Bismarck, the British destroyer HMS Cossack, and the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

2017年9月21日 · The sailors aboard the Cossack adopted Sam as their own, but not knowing his German name, of course, they called him Oscar and he newly became an allied cat. His duration on the Cossack lasted several months until the ship was escorting a …

2021年7月29日 · One of the more famous cats of World War I was Pitouchi, the adopted friend of Lt. Lekeux. After nursing the orphaned kitten back to health, Lekeux brought him everywhere, including near the German front. It was there that Pitouchi saved his friend’s skin, according to author Susan Bulanda.

Cats took no sides in World War II. There were cats in every capital, serving with every army, and providing aid and comfort for soldiers everywhere. Cats, essentially, were (and are) meaningless to military history.

Image size: 1380 x 1600 pixel. 446 KB Date: Thursday, 16 July 1942 Place: Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, Soviet Union Photographer: Unknown...

2019年5月21日 · A place to share and discuss World War II photographs. Members Online German prisoners are gathered in front of the church of La-Haye-du-Puits by soldiers belonging to the 121st regiment of the 8th American infantry division, Normandy, 9 June 1944