Episode 417 - The Time the US Army Tried to Train Racist Attack Dogs Ft. Gregk Foley

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During WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently.

SOURCES:

https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-island

https://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/

https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.html

https://www.uswardogs.org/WWII

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-ii

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-day

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/uncle-sam-needs-to-borrow-your-dog.htm