Merriell "Snafu" Shelton on "The Pacific" and Bobby Hebert

NO!!

Hey, Deke, do do you think I look like that guy??? NO!!

have they really talked about this?

This is why you can't understand him.

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The character in question - "Snafu"(played by Rami Malek) is real: Captain Andrew A. (“Ack-Ack”) Hal dane of Metheun, Massachusetts, welcomed young Sledgehammer to “King” Company and assigned him as an assistant gunner in the company’s mortar platoon. Here Sledge met his gunner and future foxhole-buddy, Merriell (“Snafu”) Shelton, a Cape Gloucester veteran from rural Louisiana.

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Interesting article



AUDIO: Sledge mentions SNAFU around 8:35 mark

good find slo

LINK

interesting dude-

[MERRIELL "SNAFU" SHELTON] Early 20s. The shortest man in Kay Company, Merriell grew up in rural Louisiana, spending much of his early years in a Depression CCC camp. Cajun, with a thick gumbo accent and easily riled, Snafu, as he was universally called, was a professional gambler before the war - often times getting caught with a fifth ace up his sleeve. Like thousands of poor depression boys Snafu joined the Marines for the regular food and payments. Although uneducated and unsophisticated, and at first highly suspicious of Sledge because of Eugene's upbringing and education, Snafu grew to respect Eugene, and the two served together until the very end of the war.

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Rami Malek

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I think he plays one of the most convincing representations of a character from the bayous of Louisiana that I have ever seen. He is pretty much spot on with the accent, and his mannerisms just seem so familiar.