The Dogs of Ousseltia

Last week Lieut. Paul Robarge and two sergeants left the U.S. lines in central Tunisia to scout enemy positions. On the eastern side of a small valley separating Axis and Allied positions, Robarge and his men were startled by a medium-sized white dog, which stood stock-still and pointed toward them.

A few minutes later enemy rifle fire crippled one of the sergeants in both legs. His companions had to leave him. That evening Robarge returned with a stretcher and guard party. While crossing the same valley they again saw the white dog stalking them. When a sergeant raised, his rifle the dog reacted like a well-trained man, dropped to his stomach and rolled out of sight into a gully. Robarge's party reached the spot where the wounded sergeant had been hidden and found him gone. Apparently the dog had led the Germans to him.

Other infantrymen have noted the strange behavior of Ousseltia Valley dogs. Captain Maynard Files reported that a white dog approached his hidden mountain observation post, pointed. A doughboy in a forward foxhole told of groups of three and four dogs roaming the valley in packs. Another soldier said that the dogs seemed to emerge from the same spot as if sent out by a trainer. The southern defeat (see below) postponed a real investigation of the Ousseltia dogs, but American soldiers know that the U.S. Army is also training dogs.

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