Army & Navy: Lady Moe

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...

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