Disney-designed insignias for aircraft squadrons
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Disney-designed insignias for aircraft squadrons
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Disney cartoons spur combat flyers
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TRULY echoing the fighting spirit of our young Air Forces, the colorful Disney
cartoon designs that identify squadrons and groups hide a grim message of hate pi
under a deceptively frivolous appearance. hi
"The first identifying insigne for an aircraft squadron, 2 «Hat in the Ring” motif ;
symbolizing Uncle Sam's joining the Allies—used by ‘Eddie Rickenbacker's 94th i
Squadron in World War 1--was more studiedly patriotic than today's flippant but p!
effective markings. Now. high-ranking favorites, judging from requests to the Disney 5
studios, are Donald Duck, Dumbo, Thumper, and other stock cartoon characters,
although the studio artists will create a design around any figure, real or fictional.
The insignia, two to three feet high, are painted with stencils on both sides of planes,
near the cockpit, and crew members often wear an embroidered replica of the symbol
on the left pocket ‘of their flight jackets.
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eng
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1944-04
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104-105
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 4, 1944
