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Submarine Chaser Training Center (SCTC) Miami Florida "The Donald Duck Navy"


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Just goes to show you how much the Disney characters meant to that generation. They were the ones who joined the Mickey Mouse Club sponsored by their local theater in the 1930s, (by the thousands with more members than the Boy and Girl Scouts combined), and then as young adults went to war. Walt Disney always had an affinity for them. They supported him when the mouse and his studio were in its infancy, and he supported them by designing over 1,200 combat insignia for free. He said in one interview, "I owed it to them."

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Salvage Sailor

Submarine Chaser Training Center (SCTC) Miami, Florida WWII

From my collection, color printed cardstock

PC Donald Duck card 002.jpg

 

....and the patch too

PC Donald Duck patch 001.jpg

 

Reverse (pulled from a WWII photo album)

PC Donald Duck patch 002.jpg

 

Both together

PC Donald Duck 001.jpg

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Salvage Sailor

Thanks Dave,

 

It came with this Tin Can Fleet envelope too

PC Tin Can Fleet 001.jpg

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Great additions to the thread. I love seeing how the various designs were actually used...brings them to life. Thanks!

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Nice, my favorite Uncle was on a sub chaser in the S.Pacific, have to get my cousins to check and see what he had. BTW, the late John Amber, well know firearms writer was on a sub chaser in the Carribean .

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On 6/28/2017 at 1:25 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

From my collection, color printed cardstock

PC Donald Duck card 002.jpg

 

....and the patch too

PC Donald Duck patch 001.jpg

 

Reverse (pulled from a WWII photo album)

PC Donald Duck patch 002.jpg

 

Both together

PC Donald Duck 001.jpg

 

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The Donald Duck Navy insignia Mary Mclssac Collection. HistoryMiami. 2001-421-33N

 

USMF Topic Here -->  USN Submarine Chasers - Patrol Craft Escort/Rescue (PCE) & EPCE(R)

 

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Cover of 'The Chaser' July 5th, 1943 SCTC Miami, Florida

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The Donald Duck Navy (official Disney or not, that's who they were)

TheChaserJuly5th1943page01.jpg.6184b309df9f2e3decab191ff08ec30f.jpg

 

 

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Submarine Chaser Training Center

Miami Beach, Florida

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