From the News: Hitler's Pet Alligator

84-year old alligator rumored to belong to Adolf Hitler dies in the Moscow Zoo

It's Memorial Day, a day on which our nation remembers the sacrifice of its Armed Forces.  Animals have a long, intertwined history with the military.  Sometimes it is as combatants - dogs and horses, most famously, but also pigeons, marine mammals, elephants (historically), and, in one odd example, bats.  Often times they are casualties, either intentionally (wildlife hunted to feed armies, as often happens in West and Central Africa) or unintentionally (such as the habitats destroyed by exfoliates during the Vietnam War).  Other times, they are trophies.

Few have stranger wartime stories than Saturn the alligator.