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Judy, a pointer, sits on the deck of HMS Grasshopper listening to a sailor File 037Article Yangtze River; Sumatra · 1936–1946 Prisoner 81A: The Dog Called Judy Judy, a Royal Navy ship’s dog on the Yangtze, survived two sinkings, a crocodile, a jungle trek across Sumatra and three years in Japanese prison camps. A starving airman shared his rice with her and talked a drunken camp commandant into registering her as a prisoner of war: the only dog ever to be one. Soldiers of the Polish 22nd Company watch a comrade wrestle with Wojtek the bear in the Middle East File 029Article Persia, Italy and Scotland · 1942–1947 Corporal Wojtek of the 22nd Company Polish soldiers freed from Soviet camps bought an orphaned bear cub on a road in Persia in 1942. He grew up drinking beer and wrestling with the men, was enlisted as a private so he could sail to Italy, and, his company said, carried shells at Monte Cassino. He ended his days in Edinburgh Zoo, listening for Polish voices. General John J. Pershing presents a medal to Stubby, with Robert Conroy behind them, 1921 File 028Article Western Front, France · 1917–1919 The Stray from the Yale Bowl A brindle stray wandered into an Army training camp in Connecticut in 1917, was smuggled to France, and spent eighteen months in the trenches with the 102nd Infantry. He was gassed and wounded, and came home a celebrity. General Pershing pinned a medal on him. His rank of sergeant was never official, but nobody in the regiment argued. Reckless carrying ammunition for the Marines, 1953 File 013Article Korea · 1952–1954 Fifty-One Trips Through the Fire Bought for $250 from a Korean stable boy, a small chestnut mare carried ammunition for a Marine recoilless-rifle platoon. In a single day at Outpost Vegas she made fifty-one trips to the guns, most of them alone. Judy ▸ Film Pacific Judy The only dog in history officially registered as a prisoner of war Reckless ▸ Film Korean War Reckless She made 51 solo trips through mortar fire — the Marines promoted a horse to sergeant Stubby ▸ Film Western Front Stubby A stray dog caught a German spy and survived 17 battles — his men called him Sergeant Wojtek ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean Wojtek The Polish Army enlisted a bear — he carried artillery shells at Monte Cassino