Six Impossible Episodes: The Dickin Medal

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Maria Dickin wanted to raise the status of animals in society and bring more awareness to the work they were doing during World War II. The Dickin Medal was created to honor military working animals. This episode covers six of those recipients.

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0:57.9	While I was working on our episode on Buck v. Bell that came out recently, and I was feeling kind of just progressively angrier with every sentence of that.
1:08.2	I caught up with Rosemary Moscow who asked me if I had ever heard about a pigeon
1:12.8	named Winky. If you don't know who Rosemary is, she's a science writer and a naturalist,
1:19.2	and she wrote a pocket guide to pigeon watching and the Birding Dictionary and a number of other
1:24.9	books. Several of our bird-centric episodes, ultimately
1:29.7	trace back to Rosemary in one way or another. Anyway, Winky was awarded the People's Dispensary
1:38.3	for Sick Animals Dickin Medal for helping to save the crew of a ditched aircraft during World War II.
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