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The World''s Smallest Dog with the World''s Biggest HeartSmoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire terrier was discovered hiding in a Japanese shell scrape amidst the thick jungles of Papua New GuineaThe GIs who discovered her presumed she had been some kind of Japanese army mascot, but it soon turned out that she understood neither commands rendered in Japanese nor English. A mystery, she was adopted by Corporal William ''Bill'' Wynne, an air-crewman with the US 5th Air Force''s 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron.Living in Bill Wynne''s tent, sleeping on a piece of green felt salvaged from a card table,and sharing his rations, Smoky became the de facto mascot of the regimentShe went on to fly numerous photo-recce and air-sea rescue missions, cocooned in a soldier''s pack hanging ne
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