Daffy – The Commando
Daffy – The Commando is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Daffy Duck in the Looney Tunes series. As with many of the World War II-themed cartoons put out by the major studios, Daffy - The Commando was withheld from broadcast or video distribution after the war.
Synopsis
A German commander – Von Vultur – is fuming and spluttering furiously about how many American commandos have managed to slip into Germany undetected, while a snipet from Wagner's Das Rheingold plays on the soundtrack. He gets a telegram from the "Gestinko Gestapo", threatening him with his ‘ka-rear’ if he lets ‘vun’ more ‘kommando’ through (if you look closely, the apes are caricatures of Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, the last of whom is crossed out). The settings recalls WWI trenches more than any actual scene of WWII. Hearing an American warplane overhead, he calls in his servant – Schultz – whom he abuses by knocking him regularly over his helmet with a mallet. They run outside and use a searchlight to look for Daffy, who’s floating down on a parachute, whilst singing Billy Bennet's "She was Poor But She Was Honest" in a Cockney accent.