This is Caesar, a dog donated to the Marines by a Brooklyn family in 1942. He took three bullets in the Battle of Bougainville, but recovered and went back into action, still carrying one slug too close to his heart to be removed. He was, alas, killed in action on Okinawa in 1945.
Wounded dogs were given full emergency medical treatment. If no veterinarians were available, regular corpmen and field surgeons were used. I don't know if this Doberman wounded on the Orote Peninsula recovered, but no effort was spared to save him.
This is the U.S. Marine Dog Cemetery on Guam.
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