Yosemite Sam's final appearance casts him as a Red Baron-style pilot hunted by Bugs Bunny in World War I. As is protocol, Sam gets to be the all-purpose villain who's all brawn and no brain. The Looney Tunes had obviously passed their prime by the release of "Dumb Patrol", but it's always fun to see the relaxed Bugs make mincemeat of the bellicose Sam. To crown everything, Sam treats his airplane like he does the animals in his other cartoons.

I guess that we could be cynical about this cartoon given that the past two years have seen a look back at World War I and its disastrous consequences, namely the reparations imposed on Germany that set the stage for Hitler's rise to power. To be certain, this cartoon got released right on the verge of the Vietnam War, so that adds to the cynicism (in fact, a young Ho Chi Minh had appealed to Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Negotiations, but the rabidly racist Wilson refused to listen to him).

Taken on its own it's a funny cartoon, even though I could figure out what was going to happen in some scenes. Just remember what to think if you ever see the Hell's Angels...

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