It is difficult today to fully appreciate how it felt for a serviceman to have his unit represented by a Disney-designed insignia. For the generation that fought World War II, Disney character ...

However, Oswald would always be in the shadow of Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and the rest of the Disney animated pantheon. The Oswald cartoons petered out in the 1930s and the coming of World War II ...

In his free time, he drew cartoons -- some for which ... boost the Allied troops' morale during World War II. (Wikimedia Commons) During that time, Disney saw firsthand the impact that his artwork ...