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Sep 4, 1398
Camels
During the invasion of India, the Turkic ruler Timur loaded his camels with as much hey and wood as they could carry and set them on fire sending them running into the ranks of the opposing 120 war elephants. The elephants panicked and stormed back towards their own lines creating carnage and allowing Timur to seize the advantage. -
elephants
armies would use the elephants and a front line that would block people from getting in and from killing as many people. -
bats
The army wanted to use bats for atomic bombs. the bats were perfect because they could carry twice there weight. They would strap the bomb to the bats and put them in the area they wanted to blow up. -
slugs
During the great war, US army put common garden slugs in the trenches to tell if the mustard gas was in the air. If the slugs were discomfortable and hiding then the soldiers would put there gas masks on. -
dolphins
marines would use dolphins to put traking defices on the enemy swimmers. -
rats
during the great war the armys would train large rats to detect TNT. The rats would sniff out the landmines and scratch on the ground where the mine was so that the humans knew that it the land mine was there -
sea lions
marines would also use sea lions and they were trained to put clamps on other swimmer feet. -
a cat
During the cold war the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency launched operation Kitty it had cats surgically implanted with bugging devices and sent in undetected to eavesdrop on Soviet. The first mission failed because the cat was sadly got ran over and the $15 million operation was abandoned shortly after. -
glowwarms in trenches
During the world war 1 solders would put glowwarms in jars and put it in the trenches and use then as a light. They said that the 10 glowwarms would light up just like a street light. People would collect thousands of them. -
pigeons
the pigems have been used for ever, they would send messages to other troops. 100,000 pigeons served Britain alone in the worls war 1 and in world war two it trippled. -
bees
In world war one they used arngy bees as a booby traps everywhere, both sides used this. what they did is that they had a trip wire and that would drop the bee hive when it got triggered. -
mules
They carry or pull along much of the food, weapons and other supplies needed by armies. -
pigeon project
the army was letting the pigeons guide bombs for the pilots -
turkeys
During Spanish Civil War pilots attached fragile supplies to the turkeys, then they would fly off being a parachutes which could also be eaten by the defenders. -
Dickin medal
In Britain an award was created to honour those heroes of the animal kingdom who have carried out remarkable duties in the most desperate of times. The PDSA Dickin medal recognised the animals’, 64 have been presented, 54 of those between 1943 and 1949. In total, 32 pigeons, 28 dogs, 3 horses and 1 cat have received a Dickin medal.
