Volume 13 , Issue 15

Ace The War Dog

This is a very interesting World War II story that Dale Talkington shares with us this week. It concerns an Australian Shepard named "Ace." "Ace the War Dog." A World War II pilot with ties to Oklahoma State University made good on a promise he made 54 years ago to a combat comrade.

The website goes onto say that, "Retired Major Lorren Perdue was in Stillwater Friday, October 19, 2007, to honor his former flying companion, a black Australian shepherd named Ace. Ace died in November 1953. Perdue was allowed to bury him under the wind tee at the Stillwater airport terminal with a plaque and an American flag to fly and mark the site.

In 1943, Perdue rescued Ace, a puppy sick with distemper, from an airstrip in Nadzab, New Guinea. After the puppy was cured by a physician with the 66th Troop Carrier Squadron. Perdue used an Army K-training manual to train Ace to be a flying war dog, following both voice and hand signals.

Ace took to the airplane like some dogs like taking rides in pickup trucks. Ace of Perdue's right-hand man. Ace also became the mascot of his squadron and rode with Perdue on missions over New Guinea as they dropped paratroopers or supplies to troops fighting in the jungles and bring back the wounded and dead.

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