Damian Valle#MuleMonday: French soldiers and a mule carrying a 80mm De Bange mountain cannon (I believe), Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War, Illustration by L.Bombled
#MuleMonday Imperia Angioletta, a partisan dispatch rider and her mule. Imperial was only 15yo.
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#MuleMonday: Poet Fred W. Loring and his mule "Evil Merodach" * in Pescott (Arizona), ) 03.11.1871, two days before being killed by a band of Yavapai during a ambush (see Wickenburg Massacre).
*Evil Merodach = Amel-Marduk, third king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
NAID: 523916
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"Mule 99 drinks from an improvised trough, a bath from a bombed building." Capua, Italy. 06.03.44 #MuleMonday
I guess "Mule 99" was kind of a diva and enjoyed the attention, there are more than a dozen pics of this beauty in the IWM archives
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I guess "Mule 99" was kind of a diva and enjoyed the attention, there are more than a dozen pics of this beauty in the IWM archives
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During the liberation of Italy mules were so valuable that they were considered "secret weapons" heavy camouflage was used to avoid detection from German aircrafts. Pic from a Canberra.
"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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During the liberation of Italy mules were so valuable that they were considered "secret weapons", heavy camouflage was used to avoid detection from German aircrafts. Pic from a Canberra.
"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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Greek troops and their mules moving supplies during "Operation Keystone" (1954); a #NATO exercise in Greece where these evely camouflaged mules worked alongside F84 aircrafts and M48 tanks. © IWM NAT 1468
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Italian POWs marching to the beaches in Sicily from where they will be transported to POW camps by sea.
The guard is riding a mule with no saddle (as far as I can see) "and contentedly smoking a pipe" 3.7.43 © IWM NA 4426 (very poor digitalisation, btw)
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The guard is riding a mule with no saddle (as far as I can see) "and contentedly smoking a pipe" 3.7.43 © IWM NA 4426 (very poor digitalisation, btw)
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Iconic view of the war in Italy; rain, soldiers and mules, a lot of mules.
"Troops and Mule Trains in Torino di Sangro" by Ardizzone. © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 3864.
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#MuleMonday: A veterinary surgeon operating on a mule (possibly draining an abscess or debriding a wound).
No.3 Veterinary and Remount Section. Capua (Italy), 6.3.44 © IWM NA 12485
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No.3 Veterinary and Remount Section. Capua (Italy), 6.3.44 © IWM NA 12485
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