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1) HIS LONGEST DAY! 
Remembering "Bing" of Loughborough, England, a four-legged hero who jumped over Normandy on D-Day. During WWII, this Alsatian-collie cross served his country with the 13th Parachute Battalion, 6th Airborne Division.
Remembering "Bing" of Loughborough, England, a four-legged hero who jumped over Normandy on D-Day. During WWII, this Alsatian-collie cross served his country with the 13th Parachute Battalion, 6th Airborne Division.
2) On 6 June, 1944, at 1:10am, Bing was one of the first dogs to solo jump behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Shortly before his paws touched French soil, his parachute got caught by the branches of a tree.
3) Bing was forced to wait two hours before his comrades found him, and then get him down. Day after day, week after week, Bing protected British paratroopers by detecting minefields and preventing ambushes.
4) During patrols, he would suddenly freeze and point towards the danger with his nose. Bing was later wounded by mortar fire, but he recovered and served in France until September 1944.
5) A few months later on March 24, 1945, Bing took part in Operation Varsity and jumped over the Rhine River in Germany. For his extraordinary courage, this four-legged hero received the Dickin Medal. Bing passed away in 1955 in England.
