Sheep Parachuted to
Hungry Italian Soldiers

Attached is very amusing collection of photos depicting the seldom remembered “Para-Sheep” of the Italian Army during their adventures in Ethiopia. It would seem that Italian grunts on the march simply would not stomach canned food the way other soldiers were able to do and so it was decided that sheep would be individually rigged with parachutes and tossed overboard, where they would be butchered, marinaded, fried and served to Mussolini’s infantry. The accompanying paragraph explains that even a bull had been air-dropped for the same purpose.