Aircraft, Flight Jackets and Pins: How Walt Disney's Characters Inspired Troops in WWII

Ramona Turcu

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop an insignia for the military unit. What Disney devised was an image of Mickey Mouse riding a goose , with a Navy trident under one wing and the Statue of Liberty in the background. That insignia was believed to be the first that Disney ever did for the United States' fighting forces, but it was far from the last. During World War II, the company that has grown to become an entertainment, theme-park and

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