Dilbert Groundloop

{{Short description|Comic character created after Pearl Harbor Attack}}

Dilbert Groundloop is a comic character conceived by Capt. Austin K. Doyle, USN and Lt. Cdr. Robert Osborn, USNR shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.{{cite web|url=http://rwebs.net/avhistory/history/dilbert.htm|title=Dilbert|website=rwebs.net}}{{cite journal|last1=Goodman|first1=John B.|title=Dilbert, USN|journal=Flying Magazine|date=August 1944|volume=35|issue=2|page=132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IObo37IFIXUC&pg=PA132}}

An early aviator, he was used in training manuals, like Taxi Sense, and training posters for the United States Navy.{{cite web|url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/library/online-catalog/view/oclc/828022806|title=Dilbert Groundloop training poster number 800|publisher=Pritzker Military Museum & Library}} Dilbert was specifically shown doing things that pilots shouldn't do with the terrible and comedic consequences of his actions illustrated for the benefit of future pilots.{{cite journal|last1=Goodman|first1=John B.|title=Dilbert, USN|journal=Flying Magazine|date=August 1944|volume=35|issue=2|page=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IObo37IFIXUC&pg=PA55}}

The Dilbert training materials received wide recognition by Navy personnel and others, due to Osborn's distinctive linear style.{{cite book|last1=Kercher|first1=Stephen E.|title=Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America|date=2010|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226431659|page=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzCbfaDZQeIC&pg=PA51}}