by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 23, 2018 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
My latest entry about pets in wartime is about Smoky, a 4 pound female Yorkshire Terrier. She became a war hero and has six memorials honoring her nationally. Smoky was found in the South Pacific in February 1944, sitting in an abandoned Japanese foxhole in the New...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 29, 2017 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
In my blog about King Mickey, I told the story of a Marine Corps bulldog during World War II. Bulldogs aren’t the only dog with ties to the Marines. In WWII the Marines needed dogs for combat as “scouts” on patrol or as sentries when dug in, to warn our troops of the...