WWII Pacific USMC Snipers

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I found this in an article I recently read. The use of dogs was sheer genius.

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@Jim Tarleton - source please? I'd also like the source on the 2nd post re: Checkerboard 99th ID. Checkerboard or 99th ID was also known as Battle Babies. They arrived to Luxembourg about two weeks before the Battle of the Bulge. Here's a link to one former 99th Div sniper: https://donmooreswartales.com/2013/03/29/clyde-housel/ Another 99th Div sniper was Max Gendelman who was captured. As a Jew, he discarded his tags and hid his ethnicity to survive. His buddies didn't rat him out. He eventually escaped b/c he was befriended by a Luftwaffe Lt. who wanted out of the war. His story is told in A Tale of Two Soldiers. It's movie quality stuff.

USMC Lt. William Putney help train the 2nd and 3rd War Dog Platoon. His book is Always Faithful: A Memoirs of Marine Dogs in WW II. He made no mention of scout-snipers being trained as dog handlers.