The Man : Military Feats

• With 425 dogs under his command in WWII, trained men and dogs for daring rescues.
• Instigated the rescue by dog team of 26 air crew on the Greenland ice sheet, saving the fighter pilots and bombardiers of the Lost Squadron
• Under enemy eyes, returned solo by dog team to the crashed planes to salvage the top-secret Norden bombsight.
• Fifty years later, traveled to Greenland for 11 years to help salvage one Lost Squadron P-38 plane from its prison of ice.
• Persuaded top brass to risk a brilliant scheme to evacuate wounded soldiers by dog sled from the Battle of the Bulge with 209 dogs and 17 drivers.
• Served as Chief of Search and Rescue for the North Atlantic Division of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the air wing of the U.N.
• Served in the Psychological Warfare Department with the Pentagon in the Korean War.