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Cecil E A Wilson, also known as "Tugg" Wilson, (1930 – 22 Oct 2006), was a commissioned aviation officer in the Royal Navy whose humorous cartoons depicting situations in naval life, signed ‘Tugg’, earned him widespread popularity, the award of an MBE and the accolade from the Navy News magazine that "no other individual in the post war era has done more for the morale of the Royal Navy ...
Broadside is a weekly, single-panel comic published in Navy Times from 1986 until March 2020, and written by Jeff Bacon. [1] [2] The humor is very specifically directed at United States Navy personnel, and considered nearly incomprehensible by many non-Navy servicepersons.
Half Hitch is an American comic strip by Hank Ketcham, in syndication first between 1943 and 1945 and later from 1970 to 1975.It is an example of military humor, but unlike most cartoons and comics of this genre, is focused on the navy, rather than the army.
During World War II, Ketcham was a photographic specialist with the U.S. Navy Reserve. He also created the character Mr. Hook for the Navy during World War II, and four cartoons were made (one by Walter Lantz Productions, in color, and three by Warner Bros. Cartoons, in black and white).
Within the comics, there was sweepstakes that was directed toward, current or retired military service men. It was called "Unmask the Hero" [ 24 ] sweepstakes and was an opportunity for two service members' renderings to appear in a Marvel comic, "The two winners will be photographed and professionally drawn into the next comic AAFES distributes."
After serving out their initial contract, all veterans are entitled to certain benefits, such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill and fairly low-cost healthcare. But to retire from the military and gain ...
China’s military released an animation on Sunday depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longstanding ...
He retired with a young woman on his arm, going off to a well-deserved retirement community. He died "off-stage". Uriah Pert A rich and miserly man. He was long the villain of many stories. Since his death his reputation has been rehabilitated a little bit, and shown to have a better character than his nephew, Senator Bobble.