Disney designs for the Forces
INE day about 18 months ago, when new U.S. Navy torpedo-boats were being launched, a Naval Operations officer wrote to Walt Disney in Hollywood asking him to design a suitable emblem for this new " mosquito fleet." A
few days later he received the emblem painted outside the bridge of the torpedo-boat shown in the picture above. The little mosquito streaking
through the water with a torpedo held between his many legs made . such a hit that every torpedo-boat in the fleet soon had a
similar mosquito. As the news spread through the Army and Navy, the Disney office was deluged with requests for fighting insignia for tanks, minesweepers, bombers and fighting *planes. When Brigadier General S. B. Bruckner, commander of the Alaska Defence Force, received his design of a seal balancing the letters A.D.F. on his nose, he wrote to Disney gratefully: "Since the arrival of the insignia all of the seals in the Behring Sea have been out on the ice pack balancing D’s on their noses, sneering derisively at the palar bears and
cavorting merrily over being chosen to represent our defence forces." Apparently, observes Life, the American
picture magazine, Disney and his artists have im, created a whole new system of heraldry. eo
m ihe Visney studios Nave announced
completion of several hundred
designs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 6
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222Disney designs for the Forces New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 6
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