Patricia Furstenberg, Author of Historical Fiction, Kids Books
Travel Through Stories
It is here, between the spiraling leaves, Autumn’s crimson battle and a Ferrari!
It has been a long, crimson battle for the shaggy warrior, but he won it. Nevertheless, the carmine bodies of his opponents, the Autumn’s subjects, littered the ground.
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If you’re lucky you get to witness Autumn capturing the last heat of the summer’s sun in its deep yellow leaves, like a cat with gamboge eyes.
Gamboge canopy.
Powdery like saffron, spicy like mustard.
I realized that I focused so much on American Dogs of WW2, British Dogs of WW2, dog mascots of the Allies, and true stories of WW1 dogs, but what about the rest of the dogs that took part in world wars, like the Soviet Union, German and Japanese ones?
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No matter what you were told as a child, dogs do fly and they did so since 1920 as the paradogs, “parachuting dogs”, are the brave flying military dogs of war trained to jump off planes with the aid of a parachute. These dogs were specifically trained to perform tasks such as locating mines, keeping watch and warning about enemies.
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Welcome to American Dogs of WW2, the History of the First K9 Unit. Sit comfortable, have your doggo near and enjoy.
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