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[[Top margin]] June 18, 1942 [[Top margin]]

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CANINE OBSERVERS AT PAINTING OF WAR POSTER

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[[Photo Text]] GIVE DOGS AND DOLLARS to DOGS FOR DEFENSE ***
TRAINING SENTRY DOGS TO HELP OUR SOLDIERS *
DOGS FOR DEFENSE . [[/Photo Text]]
Bodo, a cocker spaniel, and Mickey, a Welsh terrier, on hand as Lieut. Comdr. McClelland Barclay, U.S.N.R., puts finishing touches on a poster for Dogs for Defense, an organization of owners, breeders and trainers which is supplying trained sentry animals for the Army. 
Associated Press

A black-and-white poster painted by McClelland Barclay depicting the silhouette of a composite trained Army sentry dog and a soldier with a submachine gun guarding an ammunition dump during the night was donated yesterday by the illustrator to Dogs for Defense at a brief ceremony in his studio at 36 Central Park South. 
Mr. Barclay, who also is a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, said he painted a composite dog because he "didn't want to offend the owners of any particular kind of dog." The dog in the picture is a cross between a Dalmatian, Airedale and a small shepherd dog, he said. 
The painting will be reproduced in black and orange on poster cards and distributed throughout the country by Dogs for Defense, which is seeking to recruit 2,000 dogs between 1 and 5 years of age for guard and sentry duty with the Army.