UPL 36504
IMAGEOriginal cartoon by Paul Murry, an animator for Disney studios of "The Near Sighted Robin" drawn in the 1940s. The cartoon inspired the nose art of B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-28851) nicknamed " The Near sighted Robin" of the 34th Bomb Group. Murry drew the cartoon for a member of the US Navy, but found out its popularity with the USAAF in 1944. He recalled : “My wife was in the hospital, having one of the children, Peggy (born in 1944). The woman in the bed next to her pulled out one of my pictures and it was ‘The Near-Sighted Robin’. She didn’t know there was any connection to me. Somebody at Lockheed Aircraft was making copies and selling little ones at 25 cents a piece … all about that high … when the original was about like this. It was a direct copy of what I had drawn!”
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Near Sighted Robin
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Image provided by David Adams via AAM Website correspondence.
History of the cartoon at Mouse Planet