Behind the Tunes: Real American Zero - The Adventures of Private Snafu

Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World...

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...

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

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

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

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

Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.

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...

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

Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.

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.