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Sallie was one of the first service dogs acknowledged. She was solely a regimental mascot for the 11th Penn Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
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During World War I, Boston terrier Sergeant Stubby performed many gallant deeds. He predicted gas attacks and caught German spies in the French lines with American soldiers.
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Strongheart, formerly Etzel von Oeringen, was a 1920s police dog. He became one of the first dog movie stars in the US after retiring.
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Rin Tin Tin, often known as Rinty, was found abandoned near Flirey, France. The corporal who found him returned him to the U.S. and sent him to K-9 trainer Leo Wanner.
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Nemo, a German dog that served with American soldiers in Vietnam, may have saved his handler.
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Some notable police canines are foreign. Cloud II, a Canadian German shepherd, helped Constable Ray Carson apprehend 123 fugitives and find scores of missing children.
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Mattie, a 1980s Connecticut State Police black Lab, was unique. She naturally identified chemical accelerants, which helped solve complex arson cases.
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Koton the German shepherd, who played a drug-sniffing police dog in the 1989 comedy "K-9," was a real police dog.
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Sam the German shepherd was a proactive police dog. Sam held down a terrorist who shot local civilians in 1998 Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Apollo, another amazing German shepherd, helped Peter Davis following the World Trade Center attacks. One of the earliest NYPD search and rescue dogs, he excelled.