Going Home

Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy

Private Snafu is stranded on a tiny island with a Japanese officer; he must depend on his wits to defend himself against his sword-wielding foe.

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

Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf.[1]

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.

Private Snafu learns about fear

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

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

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.

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.

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

Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.

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 contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter -- but he has good reason to say that he'll hate himself in the morning.

Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.