Photo story about the dogs - the heroes of the Great Patriotic War

• Photostory about dogs - the heroes of World War II

From Moscow to Berlin on the roads of the war, along with the soldiers of the Red Army passed 68 thousand cronies, Mukhtarov and Rex. The stories were individual names: Collie Dick has found during the war 12,000 shells, Dean Shepherd, derailed German trains in Belarus, Husky Bobby, vyvezshy on their sleds in the three years 1580 wounded.

In the photo: Sheepdog Djulbars - the hero of the Great Patriotic War, a soldier of the 14th Assault engineering-sapper brigade, discovered more than 7,000 mines and 150 rounds, awarded the medal "For Service in Battle" and honored to be zipped on Red Square during the parade victory in Moscow in 1945, Joseph Stalin tunic. Photo: Djulbars with members of the crew of the armored car BA-10Cobaki-signalers delivered 200,000 combat reports, stretched 7883 kilometers of wires. Canine sappers cleared more than 30 major cities of the Soviet Union and Europe and found more than 4 million units of bombs and mines. Orderlies dogs were taken from the battlefield about 500 000 seriously wounded soldiers of the Red Army. Provided they support and on the battlefield. Crawling from the medical bag to the wounded man, waited for the bandage herself and crawled to the next. If a fighter was unconscious and licked the face, until he came to himself, warmed people in cold weather. We offer a look at the documentary photo four-legged heroes.

The Soviet border guards in secret on the banks of the Danube newspaper "Izvestiya" №146 (7522) of 22 June 1941

the wounded transported to the infirmary on a dog sled. September 1942 shooting Location: Western Front. shooting Author: Leonid Velikzhanina

medical instructor Kolesnikova EF evacuate from the battlefield on a dog sled soldier wounded. 1943 Shooting place: Volkhov Front. shooting Author: Losin

The Soviet ace fighter pilot, thrice Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub and the favorite squadron

Transportation wounded. Berlin operation. April 1945

dog training work in gas masks

medical orderly bandaging the wounded before sending it to the rear on a dog sled. Stalingrad area. 1943

Mukhtar - a dog, a male nurse. During the war, he saved about 400 wounded soldiers, including his guide, Corporal Zorin, a bomb shell-shocked

Counselors sniffer dogs sent to the battle line. TASS photo

Dog signalman pulls the phone cord

Dog handlers with dogs fighter tanks. Summer 1942

Soviet soldiers with dogs, tank destroyers, charged with explosives, near Moscow, 1941

In the summer of 1943 Battle of Kursk, 12 German tanks were destroyed with the help of just such dogs

Red Army soldiers prepare to go on reconnaissance with dog team, Murmansk region

Dog sitting in the snow on a background of a column of Italian troops, retreating from Stalingrad. December 1942 g

Dogs carrying the wounded Soviet soldiers from the battlefield to the scraper in hospitals. Germany, 1945

Service dogs Karelian Front

Moscow. Victory Parade in Red Square June 24, 1945. Author: Max Alpert, source: TASS news in pictures