Yorkie Doodle Dandy: A Memoir - 4lb WWII Dog Hero Smoky

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War veteran Bill Wynne, 89, of Mansfield, recently traveled to England to accept an award from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, a leading veterinary charity in the United Kingdom.

Wynne was presented with a posthumous Certificate for Animal Bravery for Smoky, a tiny Yorkshire terrier that was the mascot of Wynne's 26th Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific during World War II.

During fighting in the Philippine Islands in January 1945, Wynne was asked if Smoky could drag telephone cables through an 8-inch-wide, 70-foot-long underground drainage culvert at an airstrip.


Standing on the far end of the pipe, Wynne coaxed the little terrier through the narrow passage in an act that he believes kept aircraft ground crewmen from being exposed to enemy fire had they tried to bury the phone cables themselves.

Smoky, popularized in Wynne's book "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," came home with Wynne after the war and died in 1957 at age 14.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/05/_animals_in_the_news_36.html


Barrie Neil PhotographyWilliam Wynne, 89, of Mansfield, receives an award from Jan McLouglin of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, in Liverpool, England, for his war dog Smoky.

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