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01-22-2006, 08:40 PM | #1 |
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| Smoky, the Yorkie Hero!! http://www.olive-drab.com/od_wardogs_famous_smoky.php You have just got to check this out, Smoky has a memorial! Smoky, the Yorkie Doodle Dandy Smoky, a tiny Yorkshire Terrier, was found in a foxhole in the New Guinea jungle, bedraggled and starving, how she got there no one knows. As Bill Wynne tells it, "Smoky was found in the jungle foxhole by Ed Downey a friend ,who not liking dogs gave it to motor pool Sgt. Dare from whom I bought her the next day for two Australian pounds ($6.44 American) so Dare could get back in a poker game." Smoky went with Wynne from then on and, in the course of eighteen months of combat with the 26th Photo Recon Sq., of the 6th Photo Recon Group, 91st Photo Recon Wing, 5th Air Force, Smoky was credited with twelve combat missions and awarded eight battle stars. YANK magazine named Smoky, "Champion Mascot of the Southwest Pacific Area in 1944 |
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01-22-2006, 10:05 PM | #2 |
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| What a sweet and interesting article! I have never heard of Smoky before and what a special yorkie!
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01-22-2006, 11:44 PM | #3 | |
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01-23-2006, 12:00 AM | #4 |
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| Very cool story. Glad to see that the Yorkie hasnt changed much over the last 50 years.. Smoky was cute, therapeutic and courageous... a true Yorkie!
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01-23-2006, 12:21 AM | #5 |
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| I loved reading this thread. Thanks so much for sharing!
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