This Day In History: The U.S. Army Began Training Dogs For The “K-9 Corps”
by Staff Writer 4 · March 13, 2017
This day in history, March 13, 1942, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson created the “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 practice of training dogs for military purposes was largely abandoned in the United States after World War I.
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/03/day-history-u-s-army-began-training-dogs-k-9-corps/
