Bert the Turtle was the hero of the ''Duck and Cover'' education/propaganda cartoons, also appearing in numerous comic books and publications as part of the Federal Civil Defense advertising campaign of the era.

The film starts with a Bert, walking down a road while picking up a flower and smelling it. A chorus sings the Duck and Cover theme:
cover!

Bert is shown being attacked by a monkey holding a lit firecracker or stick of dynamite on the end of a string. Bert ducks into his shell as the charge goes off; it destroys both the monkey and the tree in which he is sitting, but Bert is left unharmed.

The last scene of the film returns to animation, in which Bert the Turtle (voiced by Carl Ritchie) summarily asks what everybody should do in the event of an atomic bomb flash, before being given the correct answer by a group of unseen children.

*Duck and Cover (1952)

*Bert the Turtle Says Duck and Cover

*As a US Government published icon, Bert could not be copyrighted.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover_%28film%29 Wikipedia]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 The Film on Youtube]
*[http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_cd_story Military Headlines]
*[http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_cd_story Atomic Platters]
*[http://www.comics.org/character/name/bert%20the%20turtle/sort/alpha/ Grand Comics Database]
*[http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20941 Comic Book Plus]
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