navy occurior sunk by japanese kamikazes. they played a role. let s start off with the four legged friends, the dogs, how important were they and what role did they play? they played a lot of roles. there were work dogs but there were also dogs that were companions to these troops and really lifted morale, but there s numerous cases where dogs saved hundreds of lives, sometimes losing their own lives in the process. jenna: and what about pigeons? we hear that pigeons were important in this world war. it s true. i think a lot of people, with the advans in radio technology from world war i to world war ii would think that wouldn t be the case but there s also a number of cases where the radios, they just wouldn t work, and one pigeon, g.i. joe, saved a thousand men because they wouldn t get radio contact and he flew 40 miles and delivered the message and saved them from an air strike. jenna: kind of makes you