Silent heroes. Deer transport battalions in World War II
In late 2020, a monument to Heroes of Deer Transport Battalions was opened in Murmansk Fighters of the deer transport troop. Karelian front, 1944© Archive of the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore MOSCOW, May 14. /TASS/. During the war, in the North, deer were used as transport. They carried shells, food, wood and fuel, evacuated the injured, searched for crashed planes. TASS is telling about the deer transport and involvement of the Saami - the Kola Peninsula’s low-numbered indigenous people, who have lived with those animals for centuries. The Red Army used deer for the first time ...
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