Private Snafu in The Aleutians—Isles of Enchantment (Oh Brother!) is a short cartoon in thePrivate Snafu series, directed byChuck Jones.Warner Bros. produced this film for the United States armed forces and issued it to service branches in February 1945, to inform personnel posted in theAleutian Islands of what was then theAlaska Territory.[1]
The film describes the hardships of a posting in the Aleutians, describing the severe climatic conditions in an ironicvoiceover commentary. During theAleutian Islands Campaign inWorld War II, thousands of U.S. servicemen were stationed in the islands.
The film begins by describing how the Aleutian Islands were considered a "back door to the United States", resulting in theAleutian Islands Campaign, after which the islands are now "a front door toTokyo". It goes on to describe the harsh and widely varying environment—rain, snow, thunder, whirlwind gales—which the narrator attributes toMother Nature: "the old bag blew her top!" The narrator also describes the conditions as "almost unbelievable", to which an observingelephant seal replies withJimmy Durante style, "Nevertheless, that's the conditions that prevail".
Two servicemen emerge from thick mud riding on what appears to be another serviceman. A "williwaw" strikes suddenly, stripping buildings and even hills off the landscape. Difficulty of airstrip maintenance due to excess moisture is the next topic; airmen (including Private Snafu, in his lone appearance in the short, donning a diving suit) dive into a pond to retrieve aB-17. The aircraft rises from water and takes flight, opening its bomb bay to discharge a fish. This animal drops into the gaping maw of the seal, who repeats his earlier dialogue.
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