She was able to pull the same weight as three horses. Lizzie was a traveling circus elephant who was enlisted to haul scrap metal from merchants in Sheffield. Enter Lizzie the elephant, the Rosie the Riveter of the animal kingdom.
The British army used roughly 1.2 million horses and mules in World War I, leaving a transportation labor shortage in British towns. (The real name of the mission, Operation Barroom, was a reference to the sound a flatulent elephant makes.)īut pachyderms also did their part outside the theater of war. mission to airlift a pair of elephants to transport lumber through the mountains of Vietnam. The movie Operation Dumbo Drop was based on the true story of a U.S. Tolkien’s oliphaunts in the Lord of the Rings series. Elephants were also used to ford flooded rivers and may have inspired J.R.R. After being conscripted by Japanese forces to haul supplies through the Burmese jungle, Lin Wang was captured by the Chinese army and became a double agent. Perhaps the oldest of animal veterans is Lin Wang, or Grandpa Lin, an elephant who served in World War II and lived to age 86. They had no choice.”Īlong with horses and dogs, elephants are some of the earliest animals historically on the battlefield, serving roughly the same role as tanks-Hannibal famously brought more than 30 elephants in his march across the Alps in 218 B.C. In 2004, the British government honored the glow worms and other military animals with a memorial sculpture bearing an inscription: “This monument is dedicated to all the animals that served and died alongside British and allied forces in wars and campaigns throughout time. After collecting thousands of worms in jars, soldiers would use them to illuminate messages and maps in the dark trenches. In World War I, British soldiers found bioluminescent allies in glow worms.
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