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Kuznechik (Russian: Кузнечик, meaning "grasshopper") was a Bactrian camel that became known for following the Soviet Red Army in its advance towards Germany in World War II. Camels in World War II
Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba during the First Suez Offensive of World War I, 1915. Camel cavalry, or camelry (French: méharistes, pronounced), is a generic designation for armed forces using camels as a means of transportation. Sometimes warriors or soldiers of this type also fought from camel-back with spears, bows, or firearms.
The Free French Camel Corps (French: Corps de Méharistes Français Libres) was a méhariste camel cavalry unit of the Free French forces, founded by among others Captain Edouard Dieffenbach, under command of General Charles de Gaulle during World War II.
In World War II, many military units of the Soviet Red Army, sometime after the Battle of Stalingrad, took to using camels in the southern theatre of the war in order to transport ammunition, fuel for tanks and aircraft, food, water for kitchens, fuel, and even wounded Red Army soldiers.
The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States.Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adopt them for military use.
The Camel Corps spent the following months rounding up stray Italians and policing against local bandits. In 1942, the Somaliland Camel Corps became a mechanized regiment. On 30 April 1944, six bombers of 61 Squadron , Royal Air Force , attacked and damaged the German submarine U-852 ( Kapitänleutnant [Lieutenant-Captain] Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ).
Camel cavalry units in the Spanish, French, Italian and British colonial possessions in North Africa and the Middle East, for instance: Méhariste, a camel mounted African unit in the French army Free French Camel Corps, a camel cavalry unit of the Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle during World War II in Eastern Africa
The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 during the First World War for service in the Middle East. From a small beginning the unit eventually grew to a brigade of four battalions , one battalion each from Great Britain and New Zealand and two battalions from ...