[b]Corporal Merriell Allesandro "SNAFU" Shelton[/b] (January 21, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was a [[United States]] [[united_states_marine_corps|Marine]] who served in the Pacific theater during [[World War II]]. 

He is depicted in the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At [[battle_of_peleliu|Peleliu]] and [[battle_of_okinawa|Okinawa]] by [[Eugene Bondurant Sledge]] which chronicled their combat experiences. Snafu also appears as a character in the HBO miniseries [[The Pacific]] (2010), in which he is portrayed by American-[[Egypt]]ian actor "Rami Malek":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami_Malek.
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