20 Emotional Photos of Soldiers and Their Pets in War

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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