In this 1944 cartoon Donald is dropped into a jungle somewhere and his task is to get to an enemy airfield and “surround it” and “wipe them out”, although there is only him on the mission. It's a Japanese-held island, and this is where we get more of the stereotypes of the Japanese.
Donald jumps and ends up caught in some trees. He falls to earth and then inflates a rubber boat to go down the river.
Two Japanese snipers are disguised as a tree and a rock.
The rock messes up the tree's shot and the tree ends up shooting himself in the rear. The rock then bows and says “I beg my pardon.”
Then they keep bowing to each other, each claiming it was their fault.
One sniper tells the other one that it's a “Japanese custom,” “always shooting the man in the back, please.”
Donald starts to go over a waterfall. We have our first actual face of a Japanese sniper appear.
His boat became like a balloon into which all the water fell, expanding the boat so it chases him down the gorge.
The Japanese airfield, from above on the river. Donald has managed to set off a natural catastrophe with rocks and water both chasing him.
And, of course, the rocks and water wipe out the Japanese airfield.
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