Friday, December 05, 2025

B-26 "Fifinella"

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391st BG, 575th BS. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3108279672739907&set=gm.911178176332977 The Fifinella design from Disney has be...

not that I'll ever valet park my cars, but, they can't learn how to use a clutch?

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https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-how-times-have-changed.html

Disney artwork for the 26th Fighter Squadron "China Blitzers" WW2

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10228837952441502&set=gm.2128608010644372&idorvanity=186487028189823

Disney artist Hank Porter created this design for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Night Fighter Group 53, in early 1944.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=744495345562689&set=gm.244744212364104&idorvanity=186487028189823

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.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5714754468536727&set=pcb.580750157085612

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

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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.

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The abandonment of the "Pacific Extension" was the largest single railroad abandonment in American history. https://www.facebook.c...

Naval air stations in Kansas

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2371980873154964&set=pcb.2796626110509222 Gregg pointed out, in the comments: A number of pilot tr...
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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!

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a Soul, with a license plate that says Ghostlite! Very cool!  a Darth Maul edition? Owner made  https://www.motortrend.com/cars/fiat/500e/20...

I can't even guess what the hell this means

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

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

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

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Bugs!

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by Leon Schlesinger   https://www.usmcmuseum.com/world-war-ii-marine-corps-aviation-insignia.html

Loving this

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https://www.usmcmuseum.com/world-war-ii-marine-corps-aviation-insignia.html

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

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https://www.usmcmuseum.com/world-war-ii-marine-corps-aviation-insignia.html It's been quite a few years since I posted Milton Caniff nos...

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.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9355051661173638&set=pcb.1121383083022314

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

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

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10235871018301003&set=pcb.2801638263341340

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.

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

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

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She was launched in August 1944 and was acquired by the Navy two months later. Following shakedown, Kenton transported roughly 1,500 Army tr...

Found on an abandoned farm in Alberta Canada 25 years ago

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

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USS Sailfish SS-192 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25088193104172560&set=pcb.3149600095211820 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864...