Friday, December 05, 2025

These multicolored transit passes for students, the US Fighting Units Series, was issued by the St. Louis Public Service Company, the designs featured on the passes were created at the Disney studio during World War II.

The Imperial War Museum has a strange way to display a Jeep

 

In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.


The abandonment of the "Pacific Extension" was the largest single railroad abandonment in American history.

a Naval air station in Kansas, hmmm

 

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Sunoco and Disney, and WW2 rationing


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Thursday, December 04, 2025

two of the coolest license plates I've seen for a long time!

a Soul, with a license plate that says Ghostlite! Very cool! 


a Darth Maul edition? I will have to look that up to see if this is something the owner made, or the factory

I can't even guess what the hell this means

 

Can this Kia possibly benefit from this diffuser? Or is it just a visually appealing design element?


 

and now for something really strange and unusual, a hand made airplane photography calculator

 




Cool Elk with a topper that looks like it was designed perfectly


Bugs!


Loving this


Whoa! A Milton Caniff! I've never seen this before! The Nighthawks, Marine night fighter squadron 543



It's been quite a few years since I posted Milton Caniff nose art! If you missed it then, check it out real fast, he was awesome, one of the best of his generation, and though you might not recall Male Call, the strip he did ONLY for the ENLISTED! You probably know of the legendary Terry and The Pirates

And I posted the best of it, Miss Lace the famous character, which was nose art on a couple of bombers! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=caniff

the 13th Armored Division, which was also known as the Black Cat Division, trained at Camp Beale, California, and was deployed to Europe during the war.



done for President Truman’s plane, the “Sacred Cow.”


The Douglas Aircraft Company built a special plane for the president with an elevator so the wheelchair bound president could be boarded easily. 

The plane’s official name was “The Flying White House” but it was better known as the Sacred Cow because of its heavy security. 

President Roosevelt used the “Sacred Cow” to go to the Yalta Conference in 1945 to meet with Churchill and Stalin to discuss postwar Europe. This was the only time he used the plane since he died 2 months later. President Truman used the plane during his first 27 months in office.

 

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Royal Netherlands Military Flying School (RNMFS) “Shooting gremlin in a wooden shoe” insignia created by Disney in 1943 on request by the RNMF’s air gunner cadets.


Used as the emblem for the B-25 ferry flights from Jackson Mississippi US to Australia becoming part of the Dutch/Australian 18th Squadron NEI.

USS Kenton, APA-122 was an attack transport named for Kenton County, Kentucky.


She was launched in August 1944 and was acquired by the Navy two months later. Following shakedown, Kenton transported roughly 1,500 Army troops to Pearl Harbor, and from there to the Philippines.

Found on an abandoned farm in Alberta Canada 25 years ago


Just found a "Disney and the War" facebook page... instant gratitude with original insignias and patch art by Hank Porter


huh... someone figured out that his sled dogs could just as easily pull a rail cart to get him from Shelton to Nome, Alaska, July 28, 1912





the dogs would automatically jump onto the cart when it was coasting downhill

it's time again, to think back over the past year, and nominate a hero! Entries must be in by Jan 31st. the Goodyear Highway Hero Award program has honored professional truck drivers who have acted selflessly for the good of others on highways across North America.



 the Goodyear Highway Hero Award program has honored professional truck drivers who have acted selflessly for the good of others on highways across North America, since 1983

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