A treasure trove of news clippings – home front news and strategy. A collie member of the dog rescue squad and a dog named Hitler.
Group-Captain Douglas Bader writes about prison war camps and dangerous pranks by Britons’. Source: original broadsheet digitized from acquired collection.
1942 Invasion routes. Source: original broadsheet digitized from acquired collection.
No soup was made from this lucky clucker. The chicken was buried for weeks when a German Robot bombed its pen. Workers found it when clearing rubble. Source: original broadsheet digitized from acquired collection.
News of U.S. Bombers hitting rail yards near Stuttgart. Army Men, Flyers and Brides arriving on Yule leave. Source: original broadsheet digitized from acquired collection.
Photo-op at the historic Quebec Citadel, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill reviewing Honour Guard. Source: original broadsheet, digitized from acquired collection.
Photo-op with her Majesty, the Queen acknowledges Peter, a collie member of the renowned dog rescue squad which figured in V-bomb incidents – while Princess Elizabeth looks on. Source: news clipping digitized from acquired collection. Apparently in 1945 this dog was awarded the Dickens Medal considered the Victoria Cross for animals.
Photo of his Majesty, the King and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, and his dog Hitler. Source: news clipping digitized from acquired collection.