[Bluesguy]

My dad was a WW2 vet and he told me that they used mules a lot during the war. One story he told me was about a sgt. yelling at 2 soldiers for beating on a mule. He told them that soldiers were a dime a dozen but mules were hard to come by.

[redgolum]

Heard that also. My grandfather was to old for WWII, but remember that a lot of horses and mules got "drafted" by the Army.

But in comparison to the German and Japanese military of the time, we were very mechanized.