“Private Snafu – ‘Snafuperman’ – BW – WWII”, “Snafuperman”,

“One in the series of “Private SNAFU” cartoons produced by Warner Brothers, “Snafuperman” (1944) was directed by Friz Freleng and written by Abe Liss and Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss. It features the voices of Mel Blanc and Tedd Pierce. Here, Private SNAFU is transformed into a superhero by a guardian angel, but one who refused to study field manuals or maps. The result is chaos, as SNAFU almost attacks Washington, D.C. instead of Berlin, and mistakes an American tank for a Japanese one. “