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

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

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.

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

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

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

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. He tells his mom some of the secret when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at risk.

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

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.