The Museum of Flight's new exhibit, "The Walt Disney Studios and World War II," showcases Walt Disney's extensive and non-profit contributions to the Allied war effort.
Disney Studios dedicated 90 percent of its output to the war, producing diverse content including technical training films, propaganda, and morale-boosting cartoons for the home front and armed forces.
A significant part of Disney's war effort involved designing over 1,300 custom insignia patches for military units, featuring characters like Donald Duck and the Women Airforce Service Pilots' mascot, Fifinella.
When World War II broke out, everyone in America did their part for the war effort—including Walt Disney.
You can see it for yourself at the Museum of Flight (MOF) in Seattle in the new exhibit The Walt Disney Studios and World War II. The exhibit is made possible through a partnership with the MOF and The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
