30 heroic cat who took part in the wars

Everyone knows about the war dogs, but not without cats! These animals have repeatedly proved that they are able to exploit. In addition, the cat - man's best friend, with and in joy and in trouble. Not surprisingly, we know many cases where our furry pets participated in voynah.Vpervye cats participated in hostilities two and a half thousand years ago, during the war with the Persians by the ancient Egyptians. In ancient Egypt, the cat was considered a sacred animal, and if the Egyptians killed a cat, even when extenuating circumstances, he was sentenced to death. Here Persian cat and decided to use as shields or armor. During the attack on the enemy soldiers king Cambyses merely carrying cats in their arms, and the Egyptians could not do anything because they feared inadvertently injure or kill a sacred animal. Persians easily moved forward, and the Egyptians could not stop them. Despite the military setbacks of ancient Egypt, the Egyptians were steadfast in the worship of cats.

And nearly 100 years later, Herodotus said that at the time of the fire no one was engaged in extinguishing the fire, all were busy rescuing cats. People lined up the chain to prevent the panic-stricken cat to jump into the fire. It is understandable why the Persians took it as an ally on the war with Egypt.

It is known that during the First World War, the cats were kept in the trenches so that they advance warning of a gas attack. And during World War II they were taken on board submarines as living air quality detectors.

< Website publish interesting photos of cats in the war.

British troops, 1914-1918 gg.

December 1954, Wittlich, Germaniya.



August 16, 1954, French Indochina, Hanoy.



May 1954, Toulon, Frantsiya.



August 1961, Bizerta.



Cat in the ski school of war. March 1945, the Pyrenees, Barezh.



January 1956, Indokitay.



January 1956,
Indokitay.


July 1918, Picardy, Frantsiya.



December 1916, Domjevin.



August 1916 Vosges, Frantsiya.



Christmas 1916, the 49th infantry regiment, fort Douaumont, the company kota.



February 1916, Saint-Thomas-en-Argon, Marna.



December 1917, Pikardiya.



November 1916.



July 1914, Beaurieux, Frantsiya.



Vitebsk (Belarus), the evacuation of residents, winter 1943-1944 gg. < br>


1943 Yugoslaviya.



November 2001, Kosovo Srbitsa.



1956, Kipr.



trawler in the sea with a sailor with a cat in her arms 1939 goda.



on board the "Invincible." The crew with the black cat and kittens. May 1940, Alzhir.



on board the sloop "Commander Domine». September 1941, Angliya.



Young cat hiding in the "Rangers". August 1943, Krit.



During the Battle of Kursk, the crew card "Greater Germany." July-August 1943, SSSR.



September 1981, Savoy Bourg-Saint-Maurice.



December 1983, Lebanon , Beyrut.



February 1991, Iraq, Al Salman.



mascots on the training ship "Theodore Tissier." July 1940. United Kingdom, Portsmut.



June 2003, the Democratic Republic Kongo.





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