V U.S. Marine raiders and their jungle trained dogs on a Bougainville

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U.S. Marine raiders and their jungle trained dogs on a Bougainville trail, ready to go to work hunting Japanese snipers. The dogs, beside running messages, are invaluable in seeking out Japanese too well hidden for the sharp eyes of the men to locate. The sharper senses of the dogs locate the enemy who are quickly dispatched to their ancestors by the leathernecks. The dogs had been recruited in the United States and many a home carried a service star in the window for the family pet who was sharing the discomforts of the war on a front far from the family fireside, or yard, that it loved so well. The great majority of the dogs were returned to their masters safe and sound, but many a home had to substitute a gold star for the blue star which signified that the family pet had gone into action with the armed forces

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