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During World War II, the U.S. Army attempted to train dogs to hunt Japanese soldiers. The secret experiment on an island off the Gulf Coast did not go well. In the summer of 1942, six months after the ...
George Kerchner, who as a junior Army officer led his Ranger company up the Pointe du Hoc cliffs during the Normandy invasion and managed to silence German big guns that threatened the D-Day landings, ...