Miltary use of animals WWII.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Richard Notton

The Russians developed an anti-tank dog that was kept half-starved and trained to go under a tank for food; it had a fairly big charge fitted to it and a wooden trigger handle sticking up from its back that would be operated as the dog tried to go under the vehicle. They sometimes preferred and recognised the Russian tanks used in training and sometimes got frightened by the noise, but some 300 German tanks were destroyed or disabled and it was taken very seriously.

I'll betcha none of them did it more than once though.