Smoky the Brave — How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-In-Arms During World World II

Hardcover, 302 ppCopyright © 2018 by Omega Ventures Proceeds from this book sale go towards the AUSA Scholarship FundThe extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest — and arguably bravest — dog of World War II In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to overwhelm New Guinea, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire Terrier was discovered hiding in the island's thick jungles. A total mystery as to her origins, she was adopted by US Army Air Force Corporal William "Bill" Wynne, an air-crewman in a photo reconnaissance squadron, becoming an irreplaceable lucky charm for the unit. When Smoky saved Wynne's life by barking a warning of an incoming kamikaze attack, he nicknamed her the "angel from a foxhole.Smoky's exploits continued when she jumped for the unit in a specially designed parachute and famously joined the aircrews flying daring sorties in the war-torn skies. But her most heroic feat was running a cable through a seventy-foot pipe no wider than four inches in