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On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps of the US Army began training dogs for the newly established War Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.” Well over 1 million dogs served on both sides during World War I, carrying messages along the trenches and providing some comfort to the soldiers. The most famous of which was Rin Tin Tin, who was later taken to the United States and appeared in silent films. In the U.S., training dogs for military purposes was largely abandoned after WWI but in December 1941, the American Kennel Association and a group called Dogs for Defense began a movement to mobilize dog owners to donate healthy and capable animals to the QMC. Training began in March 1942, and that fall the QMC was given the task of training dogs for the U.S. Navy, Marines and Coast Guard as well.
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