The Black Cats of Amherst in World War I

As part of our ongoing but extremely occasional series on
cats in military insignia, today we bring you the story of a group of young men
from Amherst, Massachusetts, who volunteered as ambulance drivers for
the French army in the First World War. They came to be known as the Black
Cats, after the distinctive symbol they chose: a black cat in full-on scary pose,
with its back arched and tail