Army & Navy: Quack Hero

One Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion’s mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain at all.