The most common thing in the history of humanity is our need to fight each other on both national and international theatres of war. But what happens when you've had enough of shooting the humans and want something else to shoot at instead? Well in our quest to wage war in every conceivable way possible, throughout history we've conscripted animals to go to war with us!
Join Arron this week as he takes the gang through some of his favourite war animal stories, ranging from the humble message carrying pigeons of the First and Second World Wars to Cairo the dog who helped in the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound, and along the way we'll find some artillery bears, horses being promoted to staff sergeant, and a camel who fired the final shot at the Battle of Berlin!
This episode was presented by Arron Keegan and joined by Hayley O'Connor and Conor Daly. The intro and outro music - Strollin' Along - was recorded by David Renda.
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