These emotional moments between soldiers and their pets at the frontline were captured and forever immortalized in these incredible war photos.
 

1968: A soldier of the U.S. Seventh Marines carries a rescued puppy in his pocket, Da Nang, Vietnam

1945: A soldier sleeps with his dog, Okinawa

1945: A tiny puppy sleeps comfortably between resting Russian soldiers

1943: An American soldier gives this puppy a bath, Tunisia

1942: An American soldier plays with a joey

Captain D.Michelson with a turtle

1944: Dog gives this Marine soldier in a foxhole a sloppy kiss, Saipan

Donkey rides on the back of a WWII soldier

Finnish soldier plays with kittens

1915: German soldier feeding a puppy

German soldier with a messenger dog, WWII

Soldier pets a kitten at the frontlines

Soldier feeding kitten

1944: Soldier shares a banana with a goat during the battle of Saipan

Vietnam War soldier and his dog

Dog watching over a sleeping soldier WWII

1944: Wounded soldier on the Allied beachhead in France awaits to be transported to a hospital in England with a stray dog

Young soldier playing with a little pig in London during World War II

February 1918: A Canadian soldier giving his dog a bath

1968: A soldier coping with his dog during the Battle of Khe Sahn

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