I am a long volunteer for the MN Air National Guard Museum. I was never in military service due to asthma. Books like this one are excellent reference material for my military research.. My Uncles were in service during this time period. My Dad's oldest brother was a combat infantry man in Europe, he landed 4th wave Omaha Beach D-Day +1 and he was at the Battle of the Bulge. My Dad's second oldest brother was a marine./ He would has been in the invasion of Japan, if it would has take place. THE MN ANG Museum has been around almost 30 years now, I Have been volunteering for 27 years THE MUSEUM is on the MN ANG Base at Minneapolis- St Paul International Airport
Ron Kaup
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I've always enjoyed browsing through this book to look at the amazing selection of military insignia that the Disney folk created for the fighting forces. It's worth saying though that I think the title is aimed at the general reader and those interested in pop culture rather than those who are looking for a serious analysis of the companies war effort.There are probably a few hundred insignia in these pages presented in a bright and breezy manner which I thought worked well with this kind of graphic material. Most of the designs are shown as flat art, clean and tight enough to make me think they were taken from the original artwork. Other examples seem to be enlargements from printed sources because the screen is clearly visible. The book's square format works well with the material.Here and there throughout the pages are various matchbooks with the designs printed on the cover and on page thirty-six Pepsi-Cola get a look in with a matchbook showing the logo for Patwing Support Force Aviation Repair Unit 1. Pepsi produced forty-eight different covers and it's a pity they all couldn't be included. There also a few clothing patches and poster stamps shown. A slight annoyance is that there is no index.Walton Rawls writes about the insignia and how the various artists interpreted the Disney menagerie into stunning graphics to keep up the morale of the military during WW2. This lovely book is a celebration of great art that worked.***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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I've always enjoyed browsing through this book to look at the amazing selection of military insignia that the Disney folk created for the fighting forces. It's worth saying though that I think the title is aimed at the general reader and those interested in pop culture rather than those who are looking for a serious analysis of the companies war effort.
There are probably a few hundred insignia in these pages presented in a bright and breezy manner which I thought worked well with this kind of graphic material. Most of the designs are shown as flat art, clean and tight enough to make me think they were taken from the original artwork. Other examples seem to be enlargements from printed sources because the screen is clearly visible. The book's square format works well with the material.
Here and there throughout the pages are various matchbooks with the designs printed on the cover and on page thirty-six Pepsi-Cola get a look in with a matchbook showing the logo for Patwing Support Force Aviation Repair Unit 1. Pepsi produced forty-eight different covers and it's a pity they all couldn't be included. There also a few clothing patches and poster stamps shown. A slight annoyance is that there is no index.
Walton Rawls writes about the insignia and how the various artists interpreted the Disney menagerie into stunning graphics to keep up the morale of the military during WW2. This lovely book is a celebration of great art that worked.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
There are probably a few hundred insignia in these pages presented in a bright and breezy manner which I thought worked well with this kind of graphic material. Most of the designs are shown as flat art, clean and tight enough to make me think they were taken from the original artwork. Other examples seem to be enlargements from printed sources because the screen is clearly visible. The book's square format works well with the material.
Here and there throughout the pages are various matchbooks with the designs printed on the cover and on page thirty-six Pepsi-Cola get a look in with a matchbook showing the logo for Patwing Support Force Aviation Repair Unit 1. Pepsi produced forty-eight different covers and it's a pity they all couldn't be included. There also a few clothing patches and poster stamps shown. A slight annoyance is that there is no index.
Walton Rawls writes about the insignia and how the various artists interpreted the Disney menagerie into stunning graphics to keep up the morale of the military during WW2. This lovely book is a celebration of great art that worked.
***LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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