Donald Gets Drafted a six-part series, within the larger "Donald Duck" series, which shared a continuity of Donald serving in the army during World War II. The cartoon also revealed for the first time Donald's middle name – Fauntleroy – seen on his "Order to Report for Induction" form from the film's title screen. Filled with enthusiasm, Donald reports to his local draft board after receiving a draft notice. Along the way, he passes several recruiting posters that romanticize military life. Especially intrigued by one for the Air Force, featuring attractive women and the promise of escorting them around, Donald decides that he
The Wreck of the Hesperus (with Paddles)". In the 1948 Donald Duck "Pearls of Wisdom" comic strip, the triplet ducklings are rowing a boat called "Hesperus II". In the 1950 Warner Brothers cartoon, "The Ducksters", Porky Pig demands that Daffy Duck tell him "In what latitude and longitude did the Wreck of the Hesperus occur?". In a 1941 Popeye short, titled "Child Psykolojiky", a picture of the Hesperus with caption is seen hanging on Pappy's wall. In "First Among Sequels", book five of the Thursday Next series, the character of Anne Wirthless travels into the poem and tries to rescue the captain's daughter. She saves