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> > Sounds like "Foo" and "Fubar" were independant and
> simultaneous, as most
> > sources I've seen credit WW2 soldiers with "Fubar", and
> yours credits
> > WW2 pilots with the "Foo Fighters".
>
> See earlier message. Foo preceeded WWII. We may never know if it was
> part of the motivation for FUBAR and SNAFU, but it might have been.
It wasn't, those are pretty well known. They were motivated by the army's push to make an initialism for everything, and the soldiers need for self expression. FUBAR and SNAFU fit nicely into the standard communications of the Army - "Beyond All Recognition" was already tacked on to the end of descriptions of battlefields and "Situation Normal" was used in reports all the time. It didn't take much creativity to replace "Bombed" or "Shelled" with "F'd Up" or to tack "All F'd Up" as an aside to "Situation Normal".
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