Loose Lips (Private Snafu) (You Tube)

One of the various Private Snafu cartoons.

Private Snafu is walking along saying he's learned a secret but he won't tell it to anyone.

The moment he says he's got a secret the false head of the horse comes off.

Then there's the stereotyped Japanese spy.

Plus a whole bunch of other spies.

He's calling his mother. Notice the Japanese spy cooped up inside the telephone casing.

He says he's going on a trip. There are three other fake phone booths with spies; one Japanese, one Italian (I think) and the third one I'm not sure of. Should be German, but looks more like a Frenchman.

He stops to buy some magazines 'for when he's on the ship.' Three spies are right there.

In a bar more of his secret is revealed.

He gets drunk. Look what happens to the padlock around the secret.

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He makes an immediate beeline to a woman and tells her where he's going.

She types a message and a pigeon carries it off.

Her breasts have Nazi tape recorders (or radio?) on them.

Hitler gets the message.

The U-boats are alerted.

The troop ship sails with the U-boats following it.

He falls off the ship, the U-boats open fire on him, and he ends up in Hell.

He wonders who let his secret out and the mirror first displays his face, and then the rear of a horse.

Both before and after the cartoon are shots of numerous propaganda posters about not letting the enemy know secrets.

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