This may be a dumb question, but they don’t have a motion picture unit in the military any more, do they?

I don’t think they do Floyd, at least I haven’t yet heard of one these days. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen/heard of an ACTOR in the service these days.

By the way, it’s cool to see Woolie Reitherman & Frank Thomas’ names on that list, too!

Some years ago, we had the opportunity to hear from a bunch of industry veterans who served in the Culver City Armed Forces Unit during the Second World War.

Guess who their Commanding Officer was? An actor, named Ronald Reagan. Boy, did they have stories to tell.

The 30th Audiovisual Squadron at Vandenberg AFB, CA is still active in documenting missile launches and some of their photographers have served in Iraq. Norton AFB in San Bernadino had a huge facility which was closed down in the 1980’s. The Navy has a highly respected photographic school where even people from other branches of the service have received a solid education.

Interesting to see George Goepper and Van Kauffman on the list as they were assigned to help Hank Porter fulfill the insignia requests that flooded Disney’s. Based on my research, I believe Porter designed a minimum of 75-80 percent of the estimated 1,200 combat insignia designs created at Disney’s during the war.

Dispatch From Disney’s and the pin-up gatefold have always been one of my favorite Disney war era collectibles.

It’s kind of comical to see Jules Engel’s listed among these folks since he was NOT at Disney when he went into the service!!! Another studio rightly listed him repeatedly as being among THEIR boys in uniform (making this mention all-the-funnier). ;o)