In 1942 with the beginning of World War 2, the Disney Studios were taken over by the military as part of the war effort. Taking advantage of the talent that hadn't been shipped off to the war, Disney produced a number of shorts for the armed forces, basically educational and morale shorts. The following is a list of all we've been able to find. It is assumed that most of these were animated, but specifics on most are unknown at this time.

1942

Aircraft Carrier Landing Signals (Navy)

Aircraft Carrier Mat Approaches and Landings (Navy)

Aircraft Riveting (Navy)

Approaches and Landings (Navy)

Battle of Britain (Army)

Bending and Curving (Navy)

Blanking and Punching (Navy)

Comments

From Jerry Edwards : Although a WWII training film done for the Navy, this has no animation - completely live action showing various workers using various machines to create metal parts.

Boys Anti-Tank Rifle [Stop that Tank] (National Film Board of Canada)

Forming Methods (Navy)

Icing Conditions (Navy)

Know Your Enemy, Germany (Army)

The Nazi's Strike [Campaign in Poland] (Army)

Prelude to War (Army)

Protection Against Chemical Warfare (Navy)

US Army Identification Series - WEFT (Navy)

US Army Identification Series - WEFT and Warships (Navy)

1943

Aeronca Project [Basic Maintenance of Primary Training Airplanes] (Army and Aeronca)

Air Masses and Fronts (Navy)

Air Transport Command (Navy)

Aircraft Carrier Landing Qualifications (Navy)

Aircraft Welding (Navy)

The Aleutian Islands [A.D.C. Project] (Army)

Battle of China (Army)

Battle of Russia (Army)

Beechcraft Maintenance and Repair (Beech Aircraft Corp. and Army)

British Torpedo Plane Tactics (Navy)

C-1 Autopilot

Comments

From Jerry Edwards : Three different training films (1) Basic Principles (2) Control Panel and (3) Servo Motor. These are parts of a 11 part series done for the Army as part of the Minneapolis Honeywell Project. This series was Classified information at that time - as many of the training films were. (The previous training film I shared info on a year or so ago - Basic Electricity as Applied to Electronic Control Systems - is also part of this series.) Live action and animation is used to provide the training on the autopilot. Basic Principles contains some animation humor, but the animation is rather straight-forward in the others.

Carrier Rendezvous and Breakup (Navy)

The Cold Front (Navy)

Divide and Conquer (Army)

Fast Company (Army)

Fixed Gunnery and Fighter Tactics (Navy)

Fog (Navy)

Glider Training (Army)

Heat Treating (Navy)

High Level Precision Bombing (Army)

Know Your Enemy - Japan (Army)

Lofting and Layouts (Navy)

The Mark 13-Modification I Aerial Torpedo (Navy)

Minnepolis Honeywell Project [Auto Pilot] (Army)

Mock-Up and Tooling (Navy)

The Occluded Front (Navy)

Rules of the Nautical Road (Navy)

Substitutions and Conversion (Army)

Template Reproduction (Navy)

Thunderstorms (Navy)

V.T.B. Pilot Training (Navy)

The Warm Front (Navy)

1944

Air Brakes, Principles of Operation (Army)

Attack in the Pacific (OWI)

Automotive Electricity for Military Vehicles (Army)

Basic Map Reading (Army)

Battle of Cape Gloucester (Army)

Carburetion, Basic Principles (Army)

The Case of the Tremendous Trifle (Army)

Electric Brakes, Principles of Operation (Army)

The Equatorial Front (Navy)

A Few Quick Facts #7 [Venereal Disease] (Army)

Flying the Weather Map (Navy)

Fundamentals of Artillery Weapons (Army)

The Howgozit Chart (Navy)

Howitzer,105mm M2A1 and Carriage M2, Principles of Operation (Army)

It's Your War, Too (Army)

Operation and Maintenance of the Electronic Turbo Supercharger (Army)

Theory of Simplex and Phantom Circuits (Army)

Tuning Transmitters (Army)

Two Down and One to Go (Army)

Ward Care of Psychotic Patients (Army)

Weather at War (Navy)

Weather for the Navigator (Navy)

Your Job in Germany (Army)

Comments

From Jerry Edwards : Created for the Army, this is very strongly anti-German - briefing the soldiers on obeying their orders in guarding Germany as an occupied country at the end of the war. It displays Germany's warlike history in cautioning the soldiers to not be fooled by the German people's apparently friendly nature. No real animation - just some drawings with mainly live action.

1945

Another Chance [UN Peace Charter] (Army)

Burma Campaign [The Stilwell Road] (Army)

Dental Health (Army)

On to Tokyo (Army)

War Comes to America (Army)