Fighting Tools

"You have often been told that the lives of our men depend on the precise and skillful quality of your workmanship. An equally important message on how to protect that workmanship has been given our soldiers and sailors, in training camps and combat zones, through the following cartoon."

American soldiers have first-class tools of war at their disposal. If all they do is brag about killing Nazis, said equipment will be rendered useless. Snafu's gun is so dirty that he can't even scare a Nazi. He has the same trouble with his other fighting tools. Confronted by a Nazi soldier, Snafu attacks him with a large arsenal of weapons, but each one keeps failing in some way or another. Snafu's jeep is in such poor working order that it won't start when he needs to get away and is blown up by a Nazi grenade. Naked (his buttocks are exposed in this cartoon!) in a German "Prison Kamp," Snafu is a "horse's ass."

Private Snafu, Nazi Soldier

Sung to the tune of "Gay Caballero."

Besides the oddity of an exposed posterior, the word "damn" is heard- unusual for a cartoon, especially of that era.