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Woman TrainingDogs To SaveFighters' LivesAttack, Sentry, Messenger, Casualty Canines In ClassesBy ADELAIDE KEER AF Features WriterMrs. Milton Erlanger’s lovt for dogs has brought her a man-sized war job different from anj other woman’s.She is consultant on the dog program to tfie Quartermaster General of the United States Army. Which means that she is helping train the dogs that are saving American soldiers’ lives in tropic jungles and Arc-tic snows. It also means that she has the unusual job—for a woman—of being military advisor to-the Signal Corps. Mrs. Erlanger, who is small, blonde and as feminine as lace, seems to have been heading toward that job for the better part of her life. As a child she loved, owned and trained dogs. Ran Kennels As the wife of a New York manufacturer, she ran a kennel of 200 dogs and collected a flock of silver show cups. As an ae-tie figure in the dog world, she became Impressed with the military service which dogs can render In wartime. So when war broke out, she helped found Dogs for Defense- -an organiza-tion which has since supplied thousands of dogs for the Army’s dog training program.In the course of that work she came in contact with Major General Edmund B. Gregory Quartermaster General, and v eventually became his eonsult-* ht on the dog nroerramGBi32MTastod son diet in i kov yea: wasTMostheteliibod!adrrandwensfcreiconthouietc.takeMedto t'WOiPeliKnw.Asse of m mem “notM. Ptionthatcreaf
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Panama City News Herald
Panama City, Florida, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1943
Page 8
Full Page
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