Rookie Revue, Merrie Melodies, Public Domain. I liked parts where the solders were counting and other soldier forgot his number. Liked how the different groups in the military eat their food...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a9M9z1xdgc
I thought Rookie Revue, maybe one of thouse cartoons, one never really sees....I like all the old / obscure stuff..
Janus
This was released in the Fall of 1941 on the eve of WWII , so in was the last "peacetime" cartoon to deal with the Armed services. I don't know if I'd go as far to say the humor in the Private Snafu cartoons were influenced by this cartoon or not, but you can see the similarities with regards to dealing with the ups and downs of service presented in a comicial light.
I did some research on the military build up started up in 1939 and found that it was a real Chinese fire drill compared to the neat news reel films from the period.
Inductees were lucky if they had a tent to sleep in and for the most part they just showed up and were then sent home for seven to eight months before being called back because their were no uniforms or any respectable training equipment at all.
Many recruits never even received any marksmanship training at all before shipping out, and those that did only got to fire a few rounds from WW1 surplus rifles that were nothing like the rifle they ended up being issued.
Some were issued parts of obsolete uniforms leftover from the Spanish American war and had to drill using a 2X4 in lieu of a training rifle.
