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#MuleMonday: French soldiers and a mule carrying a 80mm De Bange mountain cannon (I believe), Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War, Illustration by L.Bombled

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#MuleMonday Imperia Angioletta, a partisan dispatch rider and her mule. Imperial was only 15yo.
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#MuleMonday: Poet Fred W. Loring and his mule "Evil Merodach" * in Pescott (Arizona), ) 03.11.1871, two days before being killed by a band of Yavapai during a ambush (see Wickenburg Massacre).
*Evil Merodach = Amel-Marduk, third king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

NAID: 523916
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"Mule 99 drinks from an improvised trough, a bath from a bombed building." Capua, Italy. 06.03.44 #MuleMonday
I guess "Mule 99" was kind of a diva and enjoyed the attention, there are more than a dozen pics of this beauty in the IWM archives
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During the liberation of Italy mules were so valuable that they were considered "secret weapons" heavy camouflage was used to avoid detection from German aircrafts. Pic from a Canberra.
"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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During the liberation of Italy mules were so valuable that they were considered "secret weapons", heavy camouflage was used to avoid detection from German aircrafts. Pic from a Canberra.
"mules carrying fodder up the side of a hill". 17.9.44 near Rimini. #MuleMonday #WarInItaly
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Greek troops and their mules moving supplies during "Operation Keystone" (1954); a #NATO exercise in Greece where these evely camouflaged mules worked alongside F84 aircrafts and M48 tanks. © IWM NAT 1468
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Italian POWs marching to the beaches in Sicily from where they will be transported to POW camps by sea.
The guard is riding a mule with no saddle (as far as I can see) "and contentedly smoking a pipe" 3.7.43 © IWM NA 4426 (very poor digitalisation, btw)
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Iconic view of the war in Italy; rain, soldiers and mules, a lot of mules.
"Troops and Mule Trains in Torino di Sangro" by Ardizzone. © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 3864.
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#MuleMonday: A veterinary surgeon operating on a mule (possibly draining an abscess or debriding a wound).
No.3 Veterinary and Remount Section. Capua (Italy), 6.3.44 © IWM NA 12485
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#MuleMonday "Senior commanders at the [US] Naval Academy, including the superintendent, [...] posed in 1991 with the Army mules that midshipmen had abducted from West Point." -NYT
There was a long standing tradition between the Army and Navy of stealing each other mascots. @histodons

"A party of men from the 9th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment in a German wagon, passing through a village on their way to visit the ruins of Troy, conducted by their chaplain".
📷 British Army in the Mediterranean 1919-39 © IWM Q 14401
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#MuleMonday: Angioletta Nante (15yo) and her mule. Angioletta was a partisan courier (staffetta partigiana) in Ligurua. Her two brothers were also #partisans.
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[Almost] #OTD "Indian muleteers and mule wearing gasmasks, 21 February 1940". - ©IWM F2676
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"A veterinary officer inspects the leg of a mule at a mobile veterinary section, 9 February 1944. No6 CMVS. Sessa Aurunca"© IWM NA 11856 #MuleMonday
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"Muleteers of the Chasseure d'Alpin" *- Somewhere in the Vosges, France. 1915-16.
Q 115337 by P.L.Naish
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*= NB original footnote says "Chasseure d'Alpin" the right name is "Chasseurs Alpins"
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"Breaking in mules." - 1st Australian Remount Unit in Egypt. 1916. #WW1
AWM- P10491.010.002
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" Give us mules for this job of war rather than horses."- Illustration and text: The horse and the war by S Galtrey (1918)
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Veterinary personnel administering medication to a mule. No.6 CMVS near Sessa Aurunca (Caserta). 09.02.44.
© IWM NA 11860 by Lt. Gade.
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The mule's face is the same I have when the dentist asks me something with his hand in my mouth 😅
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#OTD in 1917: :A mule transports stone required for the new Canadian quarters at Souchez on the Western Front." © IWM CO 1867
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#MuleMonday: Spanish troops evacuating wounded soldiers using mules during the Rif War, North Africa, 1921
📷 original source unknown
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"Canadian mule train through the damaged Italian town of Regalbuto, Sicily, in 1943."
📷 DND photo
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"Two men of the 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers near Toutencourt, September 1916." - The Battle of the Somme.
IWM Q 1358 by Lt. Brooks
Even the mule seems confused.
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"Close-up of Mule 99 and Pte. D. Ravensgraig of Inverurie,Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland." Fifth Army, Italy. 06.03.1944
📷 © IWM NA 12495 by Sgt. Hewitt.
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Mule breeding:
- L: Albert the Great, De animalibus, Paris 14th century (The happy face donkey denotes that he totally thinks he may die by snu-snu)
-R: Winter von Adlersflügel, Neuer Tractat von der Stutere, 1703 (notice the pit to lower the mare).
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"A warm corner". One of a series of illustrations reproduced in a book by Frank Wilkinson, 'Australia at the front: A colonial view of the Boer War'.
Mules pulling supply wagons caught in a grass fire, trying to escape from harness, near Reitz. AWM ART19684
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#MuleMonday:
"Soldiers Load a Pack Mule" by Emil Rizek, Finland, 1943.
NARA: G.0.1.5838.47
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