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
Melissa Duck a white, female duck with blonde hair. By the end of the cartoon, the two have fallen in love and given birth to roughly ten black, white and yellow ducklings of their own. The blonde duck in this cartoon bears visual similarities to Daffy's girlfriend from "Muscle Tussle" (as well as a vague resemblance to the female pigeon Hatta Mari from "Plane Daffy", 1944) and may represent the "origin" of the Melissa Duck character. Melissa Duck first officially appeared by name in adult form in the original "Looney Tunes" short Chuck Jones' "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (1950) which was, in 1994,