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Most famed and photographed member of an Eighth Air Force heavy-bomber squadron is not a pilot but a grotesque little North African donkey. Her name: Lady Moe...
Still only six months old, Lady Moe has been written up in Stars & Stripes. Her pictures have been widely printed in the British press. She is asked everywhere. This week her crowded calendar includes playing a reindeer (if antlers can be found) at the squadron's Christmas party for English school children. In January, Lady Moe will attend a charity ball in London's Grosvenor House...
...Lady Moe was brought back from Algiers in a Fortress, after the shuttle raid on Regensburg late last summer, by three sergeants who paid 400 francs ($8) for the little beast. As expected, Lady Moe panicked the home base when she stuck her ridiculous hairy head out of the waist gunner's window as the plane landed. British health authorities were not amused, but eventually gave the animal a clean bill...
With plenty of food and attention, Lady Moe waxed fat. She found where the chow line formed, pushed her way in. She decided the Nissen huts were warmer than her own small tent, often startled jumpy flyers by flopping down beside them in the dark. Nightly, her gravel-throated braying-brought more & more muttered curses. She had even less endearing habits...
Famed abroad as official mascot of the squadron, Lady Moe grew less & less loved at home. Secret cuffs and kicks began to come her way. The public-relations officer of the base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...