gunbarrel Posted February 27, 2009 Share #1 Posted February 27, 2009 This (USMC?) blouse sold at auction tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disneydave Posted February 27, 2009 Share #2 Posted February 27, 2009 Interesting! I show only two entries in my database for Amphibian Truck Companies with Donald Duck in their design: the 462nd and 480th. I wonder if this was a generic Donald someone came up with in the unit, as opposed to a design created for the unit by one of Disney's artists. Regardless, still a neat item. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpw_42 Posted March 23, 2009 Share #3 Posted March 23, 2009 I read a book some years ago called "The Quack Corps," written by a Marine DUKW driver, who served on Iwo (I think, and I forget where else - Okinawa?). Good book, and some good info about leadership; interesting descriptions of training to drive through the surf in Hawaii. Any likelihood this is the same unit? Thrasher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tredhed2 Posted March 24, 2009 Share #4 Posted March 24, 2009 As Disneydave suggested - because there is a Disney character on an insignia does not automatically mean Disney Co designed the insignia. I have one patch that the GI patch designer told me was a Disney character that he used (w/o asking Disney Co) and then added symbols reflective of the unit. I have an image of another design w/ a rather peirod looking Mickey Mouse, but it's not a Disney design either. And, in some cases, Disney Co designed an insignia for a unit, which was inactivated, and a former unit subordinate to the one with the Disney design used it for their own. That may be the case w/ post #1 in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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