This is probably my favorite of the Clampett-directed Snafus (he only directed two, this and Booby Traps). It's filled to the brim with the manic energy and comic anarchy that Clampett was famous for. The Rod Scribner animation at 1:52 has some amazing exaggerated poses and movement.
These cartoon were produced strictly for the armed forces as a 'what not to do' type primer. They were released for public viewing about 1952. The point of this one is failure to maintain your weapons. Advanced weapons are superior but are only as good as the soldier who keeps them in working order.
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What I like about these SNAFU cartoons is that they teach you both what to do and what NOT to do during wartime and such. This episode, for example, shows that you need to keep your weapons clean and in combat condition.
The STG 44 was revolutionary, but it was also fielded in relatively small numbers. The FG 42, Gewehr 41, and Gewehr 43 were also excellent German weapons that never replaced the Kar 98. The MG 42 was a beast of a machine gun, but it required a lot of spare barrels and ammo, which plagued the German's overly-stretched logistics.
This is easily the best Snafu that was animated... very catchy. It;s almost a shame we do not train our ADD-addled troops with short cartoons any more....
@TheAKgunner This works only if you are the only person in the entire area firing a gun. Otherwise the enemy is too busy hearing them firing at you, you firing at them or some combination thereof to hear anything going ping.
An interesting side note: In a real ground war, soldiers learn to keep their muzzles up so that if they fall in the dirt, the muzzle doesn't get clogged, and the next round fired cause the receiver to blow up in their face. Nowadays, it is far more important that should a soldier be running around with their finger on the trigger and have an accidental discharge, that there be no worry of the bullet hitting anything which would cause political or legal fallout.
I would be willing to bet the barrel would fail before anything else. I've seen results of a LOT of continuous fire tests of automatic guns, and it's typically the barrel (and handguards) that gives up the ghost first.
The Garand rifle. Best weapon at the time during WW2. Especially since at the time the Germans were so much more advanced. The German assault rifle was the precursor to the AK47. But this rifle was the state of the art in weaponry as the Germans had the bolt action rifle in use. Only problem with this weapon...both the Germans and the Japanese listened for the "ping" when the magazine emptied. Then it was time to advance.
@deathwatch72, The military definitely needs more cartoons like this but how many of them would be produced before some of our Senators would get up in arms about it and want them pulled from circulation?
yes you are correct in the term that the ping would kill us but we would shoot of a few rounds than trow down an empty clip than once they stood up we shot at em
I think it was more in street fights, closer combat, etc. Plus they aren't always going to be next to an extremely loud mounted gun. The sounds in war where important in survival. Every breath and every shot fired.
One trick our guys used was to fire a few shots and then throw an empty clip on the ground. The enemy hears a "ping", thinks, 'he's out!', charges and ends up dead.
personally I think that the Germans listening for the "ping" is a military urban legend. Sure I can hear the ping on the rifle range when I am wearing ear protection (ie. my ears are NOT ringing from my and others' weapons fire)...but could a German soldier hear it from 100 meters away, when perhaps his ears WERE ringing from his "Kamerad's" MG-42? I don't know... And then it must be 1v.1, no confounding noise for the German and no help for the American who fired last round
Of course you could just issue everyone something like the AK... but then you couldn't hit anything from a distance lol. BTW, this song is awesome. Greatest generation for sure.
You're right about the Garand, and the bazooka (I think), but the MP40 was an absolutely superior SMG to the Thompson, as well as the STG44. I think their deployable MG was also slightly better.
Not really. The German Mauser Kar 98 was inferior to the M1 Garand (featured here), and true counterparts to it and the bazooka were rare. Of course, peopele usually look at the powerful German heavy tanks, but those were also rare and dealt with when the Sherman was up-gunned.
l wonder if you let an m1917 just go cyclic with, say, a mile long belt of ammo (and no water, btw l think waterjackets were obsolete by WW11), l wonder what would fail first?
Who's side were they on anyway? =D I know Snafu represents what the american soldier is not supposed to be, but in virtually every episode he gets clobbered by a nazi!
@mf1932 Wrong? no, it's not wrong. Sick, perhaps, monumentally depraved, maybe, a symptom of a diseased mind and endless childhood trauma, maybe so, but not wrong. Never wrong. Them Nazi's will learn what l mean-o!
Because fat assed people are thought of as slovenly, lazy, untrustworthy, and propaganda usually used every trick possible to depict our enemies as bad and evil.
