For me the story of Rigel the Newfoundland dog that barked to a rescue ship after the Titanic went down. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Some movie I watched mentioned this medal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickin_Medal http://www.pdsa.org.uk/dickinmedal.html # 1945: Rex A rescue dog was officially recorded to have saved 65 people in London's flying bomb blitz. # 1945: Rip - A rescue dog credited with saving over 100 victims of the Blitz from the air-raid ruins of London in 1940 and 1941. 1946: Judy a ship's dog and the only animal to have been officially registered as a Japanese prisoner of war. # 2000: Gander a Newfoundland dog serving with Canadian infantry in Hong Kong in 1941 # 2002: Salty and Roselle guide dogs who separately led their owners to safety from the World Trade Centre during the September 11 attacks. # 2002: Apollo a search and rescue dog with the New York Police Department, as a representative of all such dogs who worked at the World Trade Centre site and the Pentagon in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. # 2003: Sam a Royal Army Veterinary Corps dog serving with The Royal Canadian Regiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina, for separately disarming a gunman and later holding back a hostile crowd while guarding a refugee compound until reinforcements arrived # 2003: Buster a Royal Army Veterinary Corps arms and explosives search dog serving with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in Iraq, for finding an extremist group's hidden arsenal of weapons and explosives # 2007: Sadie a Royal Army Veterinary Corps arms and explosives search black Labrador dog serving in Afghanistan, for finding a bomb planted underneath sandbags, yards from where a suicide car bombing had earlier killed a German soldier outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul in November 2005 Image Unavailable, Please Login