The Disney cartoons that helped fight World War II.

Brian Sibley, who has many posts on classical Disney cartoons, has one today about Disney's help with fighting World War II via education and propaganda.

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Disney's massive studio lot in Burbank, California was commandeered by the US Army and many of Walt's animators were moved from making entertainment cartoons to making training films for the Navy. By 1943, almost 90% of Disney's work was related to the war effort, from powerful propaganda films to posters such as this one that points out job hopping can interfere with the supply chain and slow war production.

Youtube has a list of these cartoons.

But my favorite are the ones about controlling malaria, which was a major threat to fighting the war in tropical countries.

Note that back then mosquito control did not use DDT or insecticides.

I should note that the mosquitoes that spread malaria are different from the ones that carry dengue or yellow fever, but the control is the same. And more modern weapons include not just insecticide but electronic zappers indoors, insecticide impregnated nets to sleep under, encouraging using DEET and other insect repellants, screening window etc, ,and more recently, for the dengue mosquito, infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia  bacteria