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9FS Last Days in Japan

Chinook, the monkey, at Atsugi. It succumbed to the cold Japanese
winter. [The original & "official" 9FS mascot was Huckleberry
Duck.] |
Sandy Willford, 9FS P-38 fighter pilot, stated Warren Fowler got a monkey at Leyte, right after the invasion,
and named it Chinook, for the northwest winds of the midwestern states. Also,
Ken Clark
stated, "The pet monkey, one of them anyway, belonged to W. Koby at Lingayen Gulf. We
shared a nipa hut on the beach there. He had bailed out over northern Luzon and was
rescued by Philippine guerillas. He was with them a week or more before they could
transport him back to the squadron, and he evidently behaved himself because they
presented him with a pet monkey. It was a small, ordinary- looking monkey but he was a
holy terror in the hut - got into everything and usually damaged or destroyed whatever he
found. He got a carton of my cigarettes one day, opened each pack one by one and carefully
ripped the paper off each cigarette. When Koby was flying I baby-sat the monkey. He wore a
collar and I'd tie him to my belt and let him ride on my shoulder as I walked or drove
about the camp. The dog he wrestled was a small, Scotty-looking terrier one of the boys
had acquired in Australia. I don't know whatever happened to either mascot." |
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