Produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures, the short was released theatrically on June 22, 1942.

[2] Like many other animation and film studios in the 1940s, Walter Lantz Productions through its iconic character, Woody Woodpecker, became part of the war effort.

He climbs up to the cockpit through a bottom hatch, and as Woody opens it, bombs fall into the sergeant's union suit underwear.

Ultimately, the sergeant, sitting bandaged in a wheelchair with a shotgun on his knee, has an unharmed yet upset Woody clipping every horse in the Army.

[6] Even the fictional "PU-2" bore a striking resemblance to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft in service with the United States Army Air Corps.

[8] The Walter Lanz cartoon was the subject of a scientific study conducted by researcher Dr. Roberta Siegel: "As the stimulus from which the children's behavior was subsequently tested, it is regarded as the Experiment ("the E film") and the musical Iwerks' Comicolor cartoon The Little Red Hen (sp) is the Control ("the C film")".

[8] The children in the study were given the choice of toys to play with including benign objects such as a clay, but also, two rubber knives.