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In the photo - the most heroic Yorkshire Terrier Smoky.
In the photo - the most heroic Yorkshire Terrier Smoky. Here is his story.
Smoky Yorkshire Terrier was one of the most famous dogs of the Second World War. She weighed only four pounds (about 1.8 kg) and had a growth of seven inches (18 cm.)
In 1944, Smoky was found by American soldiers in the jungles of New Guinea, in an abandoned foxhole. In appearance she was about a year. The soldiers of 2 Australian pound (about $ 6.44 at the time) bought the dog Corporal William Wynn from Cleveland.
Over the next two years of the war, Smoky everywhere accompanied his master, enduring all the privations and hardships of military service.
The dog was enrolled in the 26th Reconnaissance Regiment of the 5th Army, the US Air Force. She endured 150 air raids in New Guinea, and the typhoon in Okinawa. Smoky skydive with a 30-foot-bashi was near zenith during the battle calculations, carried out 12 sorties, for which he received eight battle stars and earned the rank of corporal.
William Wynn called Smoky - «Angel of the foxhole," it was really his little guardian angel: Smoky felt incredibly beginning kamikaze attacks, and thereby saved the William and another eight people.
Smoky learned a lot of tricks with which she performed in front of the troops, and in hospitals in Australia and Korea.
Wits Smoky allowed her to become a hero.
Once at the airbase had to push the wire through the long, narrow underground pipe. Corporal Winnie told me how it was:
"I attached the wire to Smoky's collar and ran to the other side of the pipe. Smoky took a few steps, then ran back. Come on, Smoky, I said sharply, and she went. Finally out of the darkness of the pipe flashed two eyes and a faint whining. All were very happy to its success, and long praised. Instead of three days of digging in the ground, little work has been done in several minutes.
At the end of the war, Winnie took Smoky Cleveland.
Smoky soon became a national sensation. Over the next 10 years, Smoky and Wynne traveled to Hollywood, where he showed her remarkable skills, she could lay down your name, distinguishing letters to walk on a wire with a blindfold. She appeared with Winnie in many television shows, showed incredible stunts. Smoky participated 42 televizionnh show, performed in front of veterans hospitals.
Smoky entertained millions of people in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
February 21, 1957 Smoky died at about the age of 14.
On Veterans Day, November 11, 2005, a memorial was unveiled Smoky. The life-size bronze sculpture in the Smoky sitting in a soldier's helmet on top of a two-ton granite pedestal. Monument dedicated to the Smoky and dogs of all wars.
Smoky Yorkshire Terrier was one of the most famous dogs of the Second World War. She weighed only four pounds (about 1.8 kg) and had a growth of seven inches (18 cm.)
In 1944, Smoky was found by American soldiers in the jungles of New Guinea, in an abandoned foxhole. In appearance she was about a year. The soldiers of 2 Australian pound (about $ 6.44 at the time) bought the dog Corporal William Wynn from Cleveland.
Over the next two years of the war, Smoky everywhere accompanied his master, enduring all the privations and hardships of military service.
The dog was enrolled in the 26th Reconnaissance Regiment of the 5th Army, the US Air Force. She endured 150 air raids in New Guinea, and the typhoon in Okinawa. Smoky skydive with a 30-foot-bashi was near zenith during the battle calculations, carried out 12 sorties, for which he received eight battle stars and earned the rank of corporal.
William Wynn called Smoky - «Angel of the foxhole," it was really his little guardian angel: Smoky felt incredibly beginning kamikaze attacks, and thereby saved the William and another eight people.
Smoky learned a lot of tricks with which she performed in front of the troops, and in hospitals in Australia and Korea.
Wits Smoky allowed her to become a hero.
Once at the airbase had to push the wire through the long, narrow underground pipe. Corporal Winnie told me how it was:
"I attached the wire to Smoky's collar and ran to the other side of the pipe. Smoky took a few steps, then ran back. Come on, Smoky, I said sharply, and she went. Finally out of the darkness of the pipe flashed two eyes and a faint whining. All were very happy to its success, and long praised. Instead of three days of digging in the ground, little work has been done in several minutes.
At the end of the war, Winnie took Smoky Cleveland.
Smoky soon became a national sensation. Over the next 10 years, Smoky and Wynne traveled to Hollywood, where he showed her remarkable skills, she could lay down your name, distinguishing letters to walk on a wire with a blindfold. She appeared with Winnie in many television shows, showed incredible stunts. Smoky participated 42 televizionnh show, performed in front of veterans hospitals.
Smoky entertained millions of people in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
February 21, 1957 Smoky died at about the age of 14.
On Veterans Day, November 11, 2005, a memorial was unveiled Smoky. The life-size bronze sculpture in the Smoky sitting in a soldier's helmet on top of a two-ton granite pedestal. Monument dedicated to the Smoky and dogs of all wars.
