Donald Duck is the title character of the 1942 Disney short Donald Gets Drafted.
The cartoon follows Donald as he is drafted into military service. It was produced during the period of World War II, when Disney made numerous shorts featuring its characters in military, training, and patriotic settings. Donald’s comic frustration with official procedures becomes the main source of humor.
Donald Gets Drafted was the first film in a sequence of wartime cartoons centered on Donald’s experiences in the armed forces. These stories often portray him as an ordinary recruit struggling with rules, inspections, equipment, and authority figures.
The title makes the central character clear, but viewers sometimes confuse this short with later Donald wartime cartoons that show him already serving. The drafting process itself is the subject of this 1942 film, while other shorts depict different stages of his military adventures.