Its purpose, akin to "edutainment", was to instruct Canadian soldiers in the handling and care of the Boys Mk.1 Anti-tank rifle for use in combat against Nazi tanks.

Camouflaged Canadian soldiers, equipped with the Boys Mk.1 rifle, start to emerge from various secret positions to stop the advancing tanks, hitting them repeatedly with accurate rounds.

A demonstration of how to use the weapon stresses the need to accurately aim and "lead" a moving target, locate weak areas on armoured vehicles, and fire effectively at close range.

[4]The methodical and precise training section is intersected with moments of comic relief, although these are sparse and further display the educational nature of the film.

Disney cartoonists reduce Hitler to a ridiculous and non-threatening laughing stock drawn as a bulbous, red nosed buffoon, whose tongue flaps and waves from his mouth with flushes of hot breath and saliva.

Hitler then begins a speech made up of a string of gibberish and nonsensical noises, punctuated by stereotypical German words such as "sauerkraut" and "schnitzel" which has to be subtitled for the audience to understand.

From this, Disney has created a version of Hitler who is laughable and is perceived to be easily defeated in order to reassure and boost the confidence of the Canadian soldiers for whom the film is intended.

[6] The style and techniques of creating this tantrum-throwing, childish and incompetent Hitler character were being tested and experimented in early films such as Stop That Tank!

Hitler's ridiculous nature is highlighted in his outlandish and exaggerated movement, which sees him bulging and sweeping across the top of his tank, and later writhing on the ground in Hell, unlike the later Disney anti-Nazi film, Der Fuhrer's Face.

The Boys Mk.1 rifles were produced in Canada by John Inglis and Company, and were distinguished primarily from other variants by the flat muzzle brake and V-shaped bipod.

[8] After the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, the Boys anti-tank rifle had gained the reputation from British and Canadian soldiers as a "jinx" gun, due to its ineffectiveness on German tanks.

was not only intended to educate Canadian troops on the operation of the Mk.1 rifle but also put new recruits and existing soldiers at ease regarding doubts about their weaponry.

In a screening for members of the public, civilians felt that they had gained enough information "... to pick up a Mk.1 and blast a German tank out of existence".

[11] With the outbreak of a global war, Walt Disney Studios felt a great pinch in their finances due to the loss of much of their European market - further limited by the Nazi invasion of France in 1940.

[4] In March 1941, Disney invited over three dozen representatives of various national defence industries to a lunch meeting, in an attempt to solicit work from them.