Belka and Strelka: the space dogs who returned from orbit
Belka and Strelka flew aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 in August 1960 and returned safely from orbit, proving recovery from orbital flight was possible.
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Laika: the first dog to orbit Earth
Laika flew aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, becoming the first animal to orbit Earth, but the mission had no recovery…
Unsinkable Sam: the ship cat in the three-sinkings legend
Unsinkable Sam, also called Oscar, is the famous ship-cat legend said to have survived three sinkings, though firm evidence for parts of…
Sergeant Reckless: documented animal story
Staff Sergeant Reckless was a decorated U.S. Marine Corps war horse in the Korean War, remembered for carrying ammunition and assisting wounded…
Rob: documented animal story
Rob was a Collie dog awarded the Dickin Medal for wartime service, publicly associated with parachute and SAS-related work, though some details…
Judy: the ship dog who warned sailors and endured prisoner-of-war camps
Judy was born in Shanghai, became a Royal Navy ship dog, warned crews of aircraft, found freshwater after shipwreck, endured Japanese POW…
Tich: the King’s Royal Rifle Corps Dickin Medal dog
Tich was a mixed-breed dog linked to the 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps and awarded the Dickin Medal in 1949 for…
Antis: the Alsatian who crossed war with a Czech airman
Antis was a German Shepherd linked to Czech airman Václav Robert Bozděch, accompanying him through wartime service and a postwar escape before…
Simon: documented animal story
Simon was the ship's cat of HMS Amethyst, wounded during the 1949 Yangtze Incident and later recognized with the PDSA Dickin Medal.
Archivo: Punch and Judy: the Boxer dogs who attacked an assailant in Palestine
Punch and Judy were Boxer dogs credited with saving two British officers in Palestine by attacking an assailant, suffering serious injuries themselves.
Peter: the wartime rescue dog who located people under rubble
Peter was a collie rescue dog who served in late-war London, locating people trapped under blitzed buildings and receiving the Dickin Medal…
Irma: the German Shepherd who searched Blitz rubble
Crumstone Irma was a German Shepherd rescue dog credited with helping rescue 191 people from bombed buildings during the Blitz.
Jet of Iada: the Blitz rescue dog in London’s rubble
Jet of Iada was a German Shepherd search-and-rescue dog credited with helping rescue people trapped in bombed buildings during the London Blitz.
Rip: el perro de búsqueda que encontró personas atrapadas en las ruinas del Blitz
Rip fue un terrier mestizo en el Londres de la guerra. Hallado por un guardia antiaéreo tras un bombardeo en Poplar en…
Sheila: the collie who found airmen in the Cheviot Hills blizzard
Sheila, a collie sheepdog, helped locate four U.S. airmen after a B-17 crashed in the Cheviot Hills during a blizzard in 1944.