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Posted on 4/15/21 at 9:32 am to Kafka
Posted on 4/15/21 at 9:59 am to Kafka
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Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese or English. The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 dollars Australian.
Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."
Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.
In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".
After the war she became a sensation back in the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.
Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.
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sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 dollars Australian.
but why only for $2? because she's a pathological liar, she never did any of those things!
Posted on 4/16/21 at 3:08 am to 777Tiger
This post was edited on 4/16/21 at 3:12 am
Posted on 4/16/21 at 4:59 am to Kafka
Posted on 4/16/21 at 11:57 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 4/16/21 at 5:57 pm to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:19 pm to zippyputt
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Where is that lighthouse?
Those are tropical coconut palm trees so it would be South Florida. That’s the only place in the U.S. in the 1940s you would have found them. (Other than Hawaii.) My guess is Cape Florida light on Key Biscayne in Miami or Hillsboro Inlet maybe near Ft. Lauderdale.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 6:54 pm to beachdude
1967
Lists every IHOP franchise in the country
Lists every IHOP franchise in the country
Posted on 4/16/21 at 7:04 pm to Kafka
Whenever the centrally planned East German economy had a surplus of certain basic goods, generic ads were created in order to briefly increase demand -- in the case of this '60s ad, for eggs: "The TV cook [Kurt Drummer] recommends using one more egg."
In 1983 Kurt Drummer quit shooting his popular cooking show, because he was fed up with having to find and procure the ingredients himself -- no easy task in a country plagued by constant shortages.
In 1983 Kurt Drummer quit shooting his popular cooking show, because he was fed up with having to find and procure the ingredients himself -- no easy task in a country plagued by constant shortages.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:06 pm to kywildcatfanone
This is like a pic of people on a roller coaster. The nerdy kid on the left looks scared. The cool kid on the right is having fun, and actually manipulating his car with that heavy lean.
I think the one on the right will have a much easier life. He'll definitely have better luck with the young ladies. The kid on the left will get used to paying for it.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:16 pm to Kafka
There's one of those old IHOP buildings still in use at Lovers Lane and the Dallas North Tollway in University Park.
It's a hamburger place called Chips now. Great burgers!
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:43 pm to Kafka
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1967
Lists every IHOP franchise in the country
One of those addresses listed looked strangely familiar...it is now my GP's office. (it's now a massive medical complex)
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:46 pm to zippyputt
Posted on 4/16/21 at 8:50 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:06 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:36 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Cool! I’ve been to Boca and Coral Springs area. Didn’t know that was there. Thanks!
Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:50 pm to Kafka
Christmas packages at The Chicago Post Office in 1948
Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:51 pm to Captain Lafitte
Mickey Mantle selling Home Run tires at his tire store, Kansas.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 10:01 pm to Captain Lafitte
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