US Navy Albina Engine and Machine Works ( a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon ) Disney military patch

The Albina Engine & Machine Works produced a number of freighters during World War I, but operated mainly as a repair yard during the 1920s and 1930s. 

The Albina yard expanded its workforce and production during Portland's World War II shipbuilding boom. 

It specialized in producing subchasers, vessels designed to combat German U-boats. Albina Engine & Machine Works also built Landing Craft Support vessels, cargo ships, and barges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albina_Engine_%26_Machine_Works

WW2 Tank Battalion patch art from Disney, the 710th, 714th, 751st, and 68th

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth618304

https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/forget-suicide-squad-this-was-americas-suicide-division/

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth391665/

68th Tank Battalion

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/39012-68th-tank-battalion/

 68th Tank Battalion - 6th Armored

https://2719hyperion.blogspot.com/p/service-with-character-disney-world-war.html

A nose art artist! Finally learned of one new to me! All of the Lockheed-Vega Ventura fuselage art was painted by one artist - Randy McCraw.

https://rcafno128squadron.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/disney.pdf

in May 1943 pilots went to Burbank, to ferry the new Lockheed-Vega Ventura Mk. V, bombers back to Newfoundland On one of these trips, a member applied for a new Disney insignia with the RCAF motto - "Fury with Balance".

https://rcafno128squadron.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/disney.pdf

the 2nd Bomb Squadron during the Korean War flew B-29’s.

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For the Marine Corps El Toro base from Walt Disney!

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An innovative way to display mission markers on a WW2 bomber, "punching a ticket" on the Tough Shit, with an outhouse tent between the T and the S, and the mission markers were "punched out" around the perimeter

 

42-64051, "T.S.", with the blue reconnaissance camouflage paint half removed, late May or early June 1944, at Nadzab, New Guinea, then Biak Island in this time frame.

The boxes around the perimeter of a T.S. card could be X'd out, or punched ticket fashion, to indicate use.

The nose art was applied at Hickam Field, Hawaii while the repair of leaking fuel tanks delayed the trip to New Guinea

20th Photographic Mapping Squadron Long range aerial mapping and reconnaissance using F-7A and F-7B aircraft (B-24's converted for aerial photography) Radar intelligence gathering with B-24J ferrets

https://varney.yolasite.com/xxrs.php

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First I've seen a Civil Air Patrol plane with nose art, and the Flying Tiger motif of the shark tooth grin

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for my post on Civil Air Patrol Disney insignia and patches: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-cool-little-disney-psa-decal-on-door.html

Disney even made patch logos for truckers in WW2! the Truck Drivers Battery 202nd Coast Artillery, and 4014th Quartermaster Truck Company

The art was originally done in May 1941 by Hank Porter

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1918834

The  4014th company operated out of Ledo Army Air Force Field in India

 5th Mountain Battalion

https://www.artnet.com/artists/hank-porter/disney-wwii-insignia-preliminary-drawing-for-5th-AIIxAC-dPc7vs3amTXjteg2

USS Odax SS 484, first of the "GUPPY" submarines, then returned to Key West for an intensive research and development. At this time, ODAX was the fastest of U. S. submarines, and first to get a Snorkel mast (for testing in addition to main induction mast)

 

sold to Brazil with another sub, in 1972

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2833944896903686&set=pcb.2003775719794269
https://ussodax.org/history.htm

more nose art! For B-25s of the 310th and 12th Bomb Groups

12th Bomb Group, 83 Bomb Squadron, B-25C in North Africa. 

 The "Pluto" nose art was unique to the plane and not the 12th BG.  

  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10227172055597506&set=pcb.2047626338742540

The Beechcraft Busy Bee Honorary Award of Merit

 

http://www.americainwwii.com/galleries/disney-to-the-front

Why World War II soldiers were obsessed with Donald Duck? Attitude! Sass! Moxie! and humor!

Damn good piece of research! 

B-26 "Fifinella"

391st BG, 575th BS.

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Sterling WWII Fifinella WASP Womens Air Service Pilot 

The Fifinella design from Disney has been a favorite of mine https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=fifinella

and Gremlin Gus, an adorable character 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/09/gremlin-gus-ii-has-that-name-due-to.html

https://waspmuseum.org/avenger-news/the-infamous-fifinella-by-julia-lauria-blum/

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

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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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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247th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion, Battery C