Donald Duck ... Naval Medical Research Unit 1

Albert Paul Krueger,Bacteriologist, had long been convinced that respiratory infections such as influenza were some of the worst enemies the armed forces had to face. In 1934, he was able to convince the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to found Naval Laboratory Research Unit--1 with headquarters in the Life Sciences Building at the University of California, Berkeley and with him as its commanding officer. The wisdom of his foresight was amply rewarded when the laboratory was mobilized as an active-duty unit on 31 January 1941, and subsequently renamed Naval Medical Research Unit-1 or NAMRU-1. It served as a prototype for similar units in the United States, the Middle East, and Taiwan. This active unit is now known as Naval Biological Laboratory (B). The Disney created insigne came to life on May, 1944.