Hercules Oil Lantern Ice Disney illustration on board "Duty in Newfoundland" United States 48 star flag, not dated, 1945
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Hercules Oil Lantern Ice Disney illustration on board "Duty in Newfoundland" United States 48 star flag
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The illustration depicts Mickey Mouse shaking hands with a penguin. An unknown Disney artist drew the illustration at Little America in 1956 while Disney was there producing a film. The paint was added later to the illustration by LCDR Robert E. Hancock Jr.
LCDR Robert E. Hancock Jr. found the lantern at Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Little America III camp of the 1940-1941 expedition.
This was the official flag flown over Little America.
Published by the U. S. Government
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