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The reindeer were primarily used to help transport war supplies through a “crucial supply route,” after they arrived in the Russian port city of Murmansk from North America, according to NPR. \n\nAlmost 25% of supplies made in North America were “shipped across the Arctic to America’s Soviet allies in the war,” NPR reported. The supply route was “under constant siege” from German planes flying out of Norway, battleships, or German U-boats. Still, if the supplies made it all the way to Murmansk, they needed to be transported to troops.\n\n\t\t\t\t\tReindeer graze on an airfield in Finland on July 26, 1941. In the background a German war plane takes off. (AP Photo)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n“The reindeer were pack animals,” Francis said. “Anything that would work to get stuff to places where people could use it. It makes perfect sense.”\n\nWhile Russia may have used reindeer in greater numbers than other countries and for the specific purpose of logistics, they were not alone in their use of the wartime animals; Finnish soldiers fielded them as well, and even used them against Russian forces during the Winter War — a bloody border fight between the neighboring countries that began in 1939 and ended in 1940. Indeed, there's a wealth of photos showing Finnish soldiers alongside their reindeer, so many in fact that during a World War II Victory Day celebration in the Russian city of Usinsk, officials mistakenly used a photo of a Finnish soldier with a reindeer to celebrate their own troops.\n\n\nhttps://twitter.com/spacelordrock/status/1257229696716214273?s=20\n\n\nAmong Russia's forces, the reindeer and their herders served a number of jobs during World War II, including acting as couriers, towing disabled equipment, and “even conducted covert missions behind enemy lines,” according to the Anchorage Daily News.\n\nIt was “the world’s only reindeer transport battalion,” according to a report from the Barents Observer, an online news organization covering the Arctic. The reindeer were so critical, in fact, that the Russian town of Naryan-Mar created a memorial in 2012 in honor of the reindeer herders who fought in the war, Barents Observer reported.\n\nIn fact, the reindeer were so prized as pack animals that a Russian admiral in the Arctic Circle once gifted one of them to a British submarine commander after hearing the latter complain that his wife was having trouble pushing their child’s stroller through the snow in England, according to the BBC. That reindeer was subsequently loaded onto the HMS Trident, a British T class submarine, via the torpedo tube, and travelled with the crew — sleeping in the captain’s cabin — on their journey back to the United Kingdom.\n\n\t\t\t\t\tThis file photo shows Finnish soldiers with their reindeer on March 28, 1940. (AP Photo)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nIt wouldn’t be the first time a military used a specific animal for their unique skill set, lest we forget the U.S. Army Camel Corps. Created in the mid-19th century, the Camel Corps helped conquer the American West, but it didn’t last — some of the camels were mistreated, and others were set loose or sold at public auction.\n\nReindeer did not fare so well either. Their wartime service during World War II led to the number of reindeer falling “dramatically” between 1939 and 1945, according to the Arctic Institute of North America’s research. Around 220,000 reindeer were killed in order to provide food alone.\n\n“The combined effects of military operations, a labour shortage, an increased number of predators, and difficult weather and snow conditions led to losses of reindeer,” according to the research. \n\nAll this is to say, if you come across Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, or Vixen this holiday season, please thank them for their service.\n\n Read more on Task & Purpose\n\nThe Navy is rusting away thanks to a crushing deployment cycleSelfless service and sacrifice: Meet the 3 newest Medal of Honor recipientsSaboteur or fall guy? 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It makes perfect sense.”</div> <div class="flex flex-col gap-2"> <div class="article-byline lg:flex lg:flex-wrap lg:gap-2 w-full overflow-hidden mb-2 "> <div class="item-wrapper--author item-wrapper flex items-center mr-3"> <div class="byline-author-wrapper flex relative"> <p class="byline-item byline-item-author font-tertiary font-normal text-sm text-primary capitalize"> <span class="recurrent-byline"><span class="byline-segment"><span class="byline-text">By </span><a class="hover-link no-underline hover:underline" href="https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/haley-britzky/">Haley Britzky</a></span></span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="item-wrapper--date item-wrapper flex items-center mr-3"> <div class="byline-date-wrapper flex relative"> <p class="byline-item byline-item-timestamp font-tertiary font-normal text-sm text-primary mb-0">Posted on Dec 23, 2021</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="article-layout-wrapper w-full flex flex-col lg:flex-row gap-5 max-w-full"> <article id="post-246692" class="flex-auto post-246692 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-history category-past-conflicts category-tech-tactics category-vehicles category-world-war-2 author_tag-haley-britzky content_type-1-group content_type-2-page-type content_type-3-timeframe content_type-news content_type-non-evergreen content_type-non-membership exclude_tag-newsbreak exclude_tag-sangsang exclude_tag-smartnews exclude_tag-socialflow"> <div class="article-content-featured-image lg:ml-[-4]"> <figure> <img class="archive-post-thumb article-featured-image w-full h-full mb-3" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?quality=85&w=1920" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg 1920w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=768&h=432 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1536&h=864 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=800&h=450 800w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=356&h=200 356w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1173&h=660 1173w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=711&h=400 711w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1486&h=836 1486w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1227&h=690 1227w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=384&h=216 384w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=718&h=404 718w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1589&h=894 1589w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1337&h=752 1337w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1234&h=694 1234w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=280&h=158 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=1440&h=810 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=289&h=163 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=370&h=208 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=308&h=173 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/WWIIReindeerMemorial.jpg?w=50&h=28 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" fetchpriority="high" alt="" /> <div class="article-featured-image-caption-container"> <figcaption class="article-featured-image-caption font-primary font-normal text-sm text-secondary-800">NARYAN-MAR, RUSSIA - APRIL 25, 2019: A monument to the WWII reindeer squadrons' members in Naryan-Mar, the capital city of Russia's Nenets Autonomous Area. 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during World War II in order to defeat Nazi Germany — and it appears ‘ol St. Nicholas was no exception. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Roughly 1,000 indigenous reindeer herders and 6,000 reindeer “were pressed into service” with the Soviet Army between 1941 and 1944 against Germany, according to <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.adn.com/alaska-beat/article/new-memorial-honors-ww-ii-reindeer-batallion/2012/03/01/" target="_blank">the Anchorage Daily News</a>. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“The majority of ground combat in Europe among the Axis — and certainly the Soviets — was done with infantry on the ground using horses and donkeys,” U.S. Naval Historian Tim Francis <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.npr.org/2011/08/14/139619834/when-reindeer-helped-win-wwii" target="_blank">told NPR</a> in 2011. “And in the north, it would be reindeer.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Reindeer herders’ skills were “highly valued” during World War II, a research article published by the Arctic Institute of North America <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26478013" target="_blank">said</a>. The reindeer were primarily used to help transport war supplies through a “crucial supply route,” after they arrived in the Russian port city of Murmansk from North America, according to NPR. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Almost 25% of supplies made in North America were “shipped across the Arctic to America’s Soviet allies in the war,” NPR reported. The supply route was “under constant siege” from German planes flying out of Norway, battleships, or German U-boats. Still, if the supplies made it all the way to Murmansk, they needed to be transported to troops.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1732" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-246696" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=768&h=520 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1536&h=1039 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=2048&h=1386 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=665&h=450 665w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=296&h=200 296w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=976&h=660 976w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=591&h=400 591w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1236&h=836 1236w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1020&h=690 1020w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=319&h=216 319w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=597&h=404 597w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1321&h=894 1321w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1112&h=752 1112w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1026&h=694 1026w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=280&h=189 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=1440&h=974 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=289&h=196 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=370&h=250 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=308&h=208 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_410726086-scaled.jpg?w=50&h=34 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Reindeer graze on an airfield in Finland on July 26, 1941. In the background a German war plane takes off. (AP Photo)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“The reindeer were pack animals,” Francis said. “Anything that would work to get stuff to places where people could use it. It makes perfect sense.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">While Russia may have used reindeer in greater numbers than other countries and for the specific purpose of logistics, they were not alone in their use of the wartime animals; Finnish soldiers fielded them as well, and even used them against Russian forces during the <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-winter-war" target="_blank">Winter War</a> — a bloody border fight between the neighboring countries that began in 1939 and ended in 1940. Indeed, there’s a wealth of photos showing Finnish soldiers alongside their reindeer, so many in fact that during a World War II Victory Day celebration in the Russian city of Usinsk, <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-victory-day-finnish-soldier-wwii-historical-mistaken-identity-halonen/30610449.html" target="_blank">officials mistakenly used a photo of a Finnish soldier</a> with a reindeer to celebrate their own troops.</p> <div class="embed-placeholder"> <img decoding="async" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/themes/recurrent-base/assets/post-unavailable.jpg" alt="Post Unavailable" /> </div> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Among Russia’s forces, the reindeer and their herders served a number of jobs during World War II, including acting as couriers, towing disabled equipment, and “even conducted covert missions behind enemy lines,” according to the Anchorage Daily News.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">It was “the world’s only reindeer transport battalion,” according to <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130620161807/https://barentsobserver.com/en/topics/war-memorial-honor-wwii-reindeer-battalions" target="_blank">a report</a> from the Barents Observer, an online news organization covering the Arctic. The reindeer were so critical, in fact, that the Russian town of Naryan-Mar created a memorial in 2012 in honor of the reindeer herders who fought in the war, Barents Observer reported.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">In fact, the reindeer were so prized as pack animals that a Russian admiral in the Arctic Circle once gifted one of them to a British submarine commander after hearing the latter complain that his wife was having trouble pushing their child’s stroller through the snow in England, <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8386000/8386947.stm" target="_blank">according to</a> the BBC. That reindeer was subsequently loaded onto the HMS Trident, a British T class submarine, via the torpedo tube, and travelled with the crew — sleeping in the captain’s cabin — on their journey back to the United Kingdom.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1440" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-246697" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=768&h=432 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1536&h=864 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=2048&h=1152 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=800&h=450 800w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=356&h=200 356w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1173&h=660 1173w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=711&h=400 711w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1486&h=836 1486w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1227&h=690 1227w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=384&h=216 384w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=718&h=404 718w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1589&h=894 1589w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1337&h=752 1337w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1234&h=694 1234w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=280&h=158 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=1440&h=810 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=289&h=163 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=370&h=208 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=308&h=173 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/23/AP_400328061-scaled-e1640276312855.jpg?w=50&h=28 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">This file photo shows Finnish soldiers with their reindeer on March 28, 1940. (AP Photo)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">It wouldn’t be the first time a military used a specific animal for their unique skill set, lest we forget the <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-camel-corps/">U.S. Army Camel Corps</a>. Created in the mid-19th century, the Camel Corps helped conquer the American West, but it didn’t last — some of the camels were mistreated, and others were set loose or sold at public auction.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Reindeer did not fare so well either. Their wartime service during World War II led to the number of reindeer falling “dramatically” between 1939 and 1945, according to the Arctic Institute of North America’s research. 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