5/10/2023 0 Comments Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis![]() ![]() ![]() Smoky’s exploits continued when she famously jumped with the unit in a specially designed parachute. When Smoky saved Wynne’s life by barking a warning of an incoming shell as their landing craft approached an enemy-held beach, he nicknamed her the “angel from a foxhole.” A mystery, she was soon adopted by US Army Air Force Corporal William “Bill” Wynne, an air-crewman in a photo reconnaissance squadron, and became something of a lucky charm for Wynne’s unit. The GIs who discovered her thought at first she had been a Japanese army mascot, but it turned out that she didn’t understand commands in either Japanese or English. ![]() 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. Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching, and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. From acclaimed thriller and war dog writer Damien Lewis comes the story of Smoky, the smallest and arguably bravest dog of World War II, who served as the US military’s first therapy dog ![]()
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