On March 13th, 1942, the United States military began training dogs for use in combat operations. Dubbed the “K9 Corps” (canine, get it?), this specialized unit would go on to be used in everything from head-on machine gun nest assaults to capturing enemy soldiers for interrogation. Unfortunately, the dogs didn’t conduct the interrogation themselves, as excellent as that would be. The K9 Corps were exceedingly skilled, but we’re pretty sure even they couldn’t have operated their own combat aircraft. Imagine how … [Read more...]