Movies: Private snafu

A humourous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value....

Historians and animators discuss the Private Snafu cartoons made for military training during World War II....

Private Snafu steals secret Japanese war plans, is captured and tried. He escapes and rows out to sea....

Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained....

As the Devil watches Pvt. Snafu and his unit stationed in Iran, he talks about the hazards of working in the heat....

Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contrap...

Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army....

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces. The cartoon, ironic and humorous in tone, was created during World War II and it was designed to instruct service personnel abou...

Technical Fairy First Class shows Snafu the consequences of frittering away his pay....

A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself....

Dissatisfied with being assigned to shoe consignment detail, Snafu learns about the true value of his responsibilities...

Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals....

An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu, who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught....

Snafu learns the need of keeping his gas mask at hand when he is attacked by anthropomorphic gas cloud....

A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons....

Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage....

Private Snafu learns about fear...

Private Snafu learns about inflation...

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. H...

Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area....