During World War Two Doctor Seuss (true name Theodor Geisel) was a U.S. Army Captain working in its propaganda unit.  Recently the Department of Defense (known as the War Office before the end of World War Two) released a cartoon written by Captain Geisel, and voiced by Mel Blanc, showing why all those letters home were filled with nothing but mush about G.I.s (Government Issue) missing their loved ones, or blatant lies about everything being fine on the front.

Interestingly the propaganda cartoon Private SNAFU (SNAFU means Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) meant to justify the censorship of war-fighter’s letters home was able to get away with naked booby drawings in the background (see if you can spot them), in fact ‘boobies’ were a common them in SNAFU cartoons: