Comments on: WWII POWs get a Disney Designed Insignia

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:06:31 +0000

yeah well your family don’t even like you

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:50:09 +0000

That should be http://www.usmilitariaforum.com

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:49:18 +0000

Robert Bishop did not create the original design. Emmett Cook, a B-17 bomardier created the initial deisgn after being shot down in March 1943. Many, many POWs copied his design onto postcards and in their YMCA supplied diaries.

Bishop sent his girlfriend the postcard in the magazine article. She sent it to Disney who had artist Hank Porter clean up the design.

Visit my blog http://www.toonsatwar.blogspot.com or http://www.usmilitaria.com to read the whole story about how this fascinating design came to be.

The finished art for this design resides in a private collection in the eastern United States. I own the postcard Emmett sent home to his mother in March 1943 showing the 2nd version of teh design – the first was drawn by Emmett in his YMCA diary using watercolor paint. I also have many examples of the design on file, as interpreted by other POWs and drawn in their diaries.

By: Tom Bishop Valentine

Tom Bishop Valentine — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:05:47 +0000

Robert H. Bishop was my grandpa, and we have the original cartoon of donald duck behind bars. His character was portrayed in the film The great escape, he was the scavenger.

By: Michael W.

Michael W. — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:57:29 +0000

Gosh, I feel like a dope. It was one of his other squadrons. VP-49 had a woodpecker mascot.

By: Michael W.

Michael W. — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:50:07 +0000

Disney did quite a bit of logos and mascots for the military. My father’s Navy squadron, VP-49 out of Moffett Field in California, had one.
Here’s a link to the story of how Disney provided mascots to over 1200 units, free of charge during WWII.
http://www.skylighters.org/disney/

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newsBreaks.net » How POWs in a Nazi camp got a Disney insignia — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:03:00 +0000

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By: Grammar Nazi

Grammar Nazi — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:08:22 +0000

The POW’s emblem was neat. He shared it with the other POWs.

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By: Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » I Wanted Wings

Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » I Wanted Wings — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:31:31 +0000

[...] Great little bit on how a POW camp in World War Two got a Disney designed logo from an old issue of Popular Mechanics. [...]

By: Living in the Whine Country » WWII POWs get a Disney Designed Insignia

Living in the Whine Country » WWII POWs get a Disney Designed Insignia — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:38:39 +0000

[...] History, Art, Interesting, Cartoons | no comments yet | permalink Written byPatrick Havens Modern Mechanix Â» WWII POWs get a Disney Designed Insignia This May,1945 article from Popular Science tells the story of how American POWs in a Nazi prison camp were smuggled a custom Donald Duck logo prepared by the Walt Disney Studios on the back of a Red-Cross delivered postcard. [...]

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:30:33 +0000

How POWs in a Nazi camp got a Disney insignia…

This May, 1945 article from Popular Science tells the story of how American POWs in a Nazi prison camp were smuggled a custom Donald Duck logo prepared by the Walt Disney Studios on the back of a Red-Cross delivered postcard. DRY YANKEE HUMOR is puzzli…