“After losing a leg, an eye and having been shot through the chest, Cher Ami, a WW1 homing pigeon, was sent from behind enemy lines. After reaching her destination she passed on the message that saved 194 men. Medics saved her and fitted her with a carved wooden leg. She died a year later, a hero.”
The Scarlett Fever was end of WW I not WW II
"During 1942 through 1945, 26,063 cases of scarlet fever were reported in the Army in the United States and 3,449 additional cases from the Army overseas." Office Of Medical History.
You do know when WWII was, don't you?