Don;t know where to put this so I will try here. Someone just told me something about Walt. This person said that Walt was dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps. Fast forward to the years when Walt was doing tv broadcasts from his office.
He had his discharge enlarged and hanging on the wall for everyone in the tv viewing audience to see, pretty much telling the world look what the MC did to me but it doesnt matter becasue I am famous. Then when Disney passed away, the Marine Corps. Seahunt DIS Veteran. Joined Jan 19, Per Snopes this rumor is false - here's what they say : Claim: Walt Disney received a dishonorable discharge from the military during World War I. Status: False.
Origins: In , sixteen-year-old Walt Disney was eager to take part in the war in Europe but was too young to join the military. After a plan to enlist in the Canadian Army fell through, Walt signed up with the American Ambulance Corps, a division of the Red Cross, by lying about his age.
In November of , after the war had ended, Disney's outfit was shipped across the Atlantic to France. Walt Disney was assigned to an evacuation hospital in Paris, where he drove trucks and ambulances and ferried military officers from place to place. In February of , Walt and another driver were selected to transport a load of beans and sugar from Paris to Soissons, but their truck broke down in the French countryside during freezing mid-February weather.
Walt dispatched his assistant to return to Paris via train while he stayed with the truck, but after two days of waiting Disney finally made his way to the nearest village in search of food and shelter. After sleeping for nearly a day, young Walt returned to the site of the breakdown to find that the truck was gone. Disney's assistant, after taking time out for a two-day drunken binge, had finally notified authorities about the disabled truck, and it had been towed back to Paris.
When Walt returned to headquarters in Paris he faced a disciplinary board for having abandoned his truck, but the board found that Disney had taken reasonable steps to safeguard the vehicle and did not move to dismiss him from his volunteer duty.
The legend about Walt Disney's dishonorable discharge seems to have begun with the notion that he hung his release from the Red Cross upside-down behind his desk. Even though neither Walt's Red Cross release nor anything else was hung upside-down in his office, the rumor of the upside-down certificate somehow got started and was taken as a sign of Disney's displeasure with his experience in France; over time his volunteer duty with the Red Cross a civilian organization was mistaken for actual military service, and his release was transformed into a dishonorable discharge.
I believe Walt Disney received a dishonorable discharge from the military, and people said he would fail, but he proved them wrong. He was ahead of his time. Well Walt Disney had a dishonorable discharge from the Army and he did pretty well. Side note: Walt Disney was interviewed once in his office.
The interviewer noticed something odd about his office. Walt Disney. He kept the document hung upside down on the wall behind his desk. Anyone know why? Texas Disney theme park? Million Dollars per Mile? Honoring a Dishonorable Discharge? Historic photograph of Walt Disney in , photographer unknown A widely reproduced historic photo of Walt Disney in When originally researching this story in , I came across numerous examples of people who believe that Walt Disney was dishonorably discharged from the Army.
A lot of people think they know why. Click here to post comments at MiceChat about this article. Edited image and photo by Werner Weiss, Most Disney bus drivers provide useful, accurate information, but Sugar and beans were gold. So the helper was supposed to go, and I'd stay with the truck. There was this little watchman's shed…and I sat with the watchman. I sat two nights and no help came. So, the third day I was so tired, so sleepy, that I left my truck and walked up to this town and ordered a meal.
Then I got a bed and I flopped into this French bed. And I slept clear around the clock. When I got into Paris, I found out the story. This helper got into Paris and went out that night before he reported to the headquarters…and got drunk and he was drunk for two days. Then he finally reported and he came to find me. I was gone and he picked up the truck. So I was court-martialed. They brought me up before this board, and…the greatest disgrace would be to be kicked out of the Red Cross, you know….
So they let me off. One of the last things Walt did before he left Paris to return home was to get a photograph taken of himself in his khaki uniform. He had spent roughly a year in France. However, his experience only increased his affection and respect for the American men and women in uniform and when World War II started almost two decades later, Walt committed all the resources of his Studio to helping the war effort.
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