O'Donnell interviewed most (if not all) of the survivors of Company D (Dog Company), the Rangers who were tasked with the most difficult missions in the Western European conflict. It's a riveting, in-depth look at the company through the eyes of the survivors, and only a couple of minor issues take away from the drama. Dog Company is an account of the heroic Rangers, the training that enabled them to succeed despite withering fire and heavy losses, and the rest of their trek across Western Europe. Having greatly enjoyed his The Brenner Assignment, I was eager to see his latest book on the Rangers who stormed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc in Normandy during the D-Day invasion of June 1944. O'Donnell is back with another close look at an aspect of World War II. O'Donnell's *Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc-the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe*ĭog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc-the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe
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The winners will be announced at a glittering awards dinner, hosted by TV star Amanda Holden at London’s Grosvenor House next month. The Daily Mirror’s Animal Hero Awards, in association with the RSPCA, celebrate heroic animals, and the people who make a difference to their lives.Ĭategories include public service animal, hero animal, rescue animal and animal enthusiast of the year.
It has been awarded 65 times, most recently to dogs working in Afghanistan. Instead, the Dickin Medal, launched by fellow pet charity the PDSA in 1943, became the standard reward – the Victoria Cross for courageous animals. Only three of the dogs nominated for the RSPCA For Valour Medal received their award. He was taken to a barracks the day before the medal ceremony and killed, probably with a bolt action pistol.” “Instead, he was destroyed as a stray by an army vet on government orders. It was decided Rex couldn’t have a medal, even though he was the bravest of the lot, as he didn’t really exist. Inside Heinrich Himmler's Nazi Camelot where he lived out medieval fantasies even Hitler thought were crazy
This time it was one of Rex’s fellow dogs, a yellow labrador named Texas, who was singled out for special praise. Three weeks later, Rex was dodging bullets again as his platoon was sent across the Rhine as part of Operation Plunder. On March 3, he found so many mines in the Reichswald Forest that Peter hailed him as the bravest dog he had ever seen.Īnd Peter’s war diary reveals that the following day Rex and his canine colleague were sent out again to ensure the forest was safe for Mr Churchill’s visit.
Or they buried steel mines near tramlines so metal detectors were no use.” By the end of the war, they were using wooden shoe mines or glass mines that would blow your foot off. It was cold, it was wet, it was muddy, and it was infested with anti-personnel mines. Peter, who spent his 21st birthday clearing mines, says: “The Reichswald Forest was horrible. Rex was one of 30 dogs conscripted to No4 Mine Platoon, Royal Engineers, the last platoon of mine dogs formed by the Allies during the Second World War. Rex was then sent to the War Dogs Training School, a converted greyhound kennels just outside Potters Bar, Herts, where volunteers from the Women’s Auxiliaries threw bangers and thunder-flashes to teach the dogs not to run from gunfire. Mine dogs from WW2 on the frontline/ in action
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