afnews.info segnala: Donald Duck Disney WWII Insignia Preliminary Drawing for Oakland Naval Supply Center by Hank Porter (Walt Disney, c. 1944-1945). “Here is the link between the production line and the firing line. Here is where the great battle of naval supplies vital to the war in the Pacific is being waged. Here they feel that the war is their own and that they are forwarding it each day they live and work.” This compelling description of the Oakland Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California from the April 17, 1944 issue of the Berkeley Daily Gazette truly captures the spirit of this bustling supply depot. The Oakland Naval Supply Center (NSC) was hurried into service only eight days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over the course of the war, the Oakland NSC developed into the Navy’s largest supply depot and, according to some sources, the world’s largest supply installation. At the height of World War II, the roughly 600-acre installation employed about 16,000 civilian and military workers. The depot had gross storage space measuring a startling 9,966,992 square feet. This depot was one of the most influential contributors to the West Coast’s home front war effort. To honor the thousands of hardworking men and women at the Oakland NSC, this insignia was designed by Disney artist Hank Porter. The insignia stars one of the most popular characters in Disney animation, Donald Duck. Donald was the most highly-requested character in Disney’s World War II insignia, and he steals the show in this impressively-large drawing. Most insignia drawings created by the Disney studio were less than 10″ in length on their longest side. This piece, however, measures about 10″ x 12″ on untrimmed onionskin paper. The design depicts Donald Duck with a…
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