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23 Oct 2023, 5:02 pm

"A beer-drinking Marine Corps duck earned a citation for fighting at Tarawa"

“For courageous action and wounds received on Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, November 1943. With utter disregard for his own personal safety, Siwash (the duck's nickname), upon reaching the beach, without hesitation engaged the enemy in fierce combat, namely, one rooster of Japanese ancestry, and though wounded on the head by repeated pecks, he soon routed the opposition. He refused medical aid until all wounded members of his section had been taken care of.”


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23 Oct 2023, 5:22 pm

Interesting article. Turns out the duck was a female.


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23 Oct 2023, 8:58 pm

This is a very interesting article - thank you for posting it :)



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24 Oct 2023, 12:54 am

Interesting how an animal raised by humans will...immitate the humans. And try to do whatever it is the humans do.

In this case...engage in combat.

The duck landed on Iwo Jima (or whereve it was), and saw its human daddy fight other humans. So she found a local domestic fowl..in her roughly her own weight class...to go mono y mono on! :lol: