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Thursday, February 14, 2008

World War II Posters: Don't talk about ship movement or cargo




Careless talk costs lives
Artist: Al Doria
WPA War Services of LA, [1941-1943]
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Dont tell him what you know about.... troop concentrations, departures .... arrivals.
Artist: Russell W. Kraus, [1941-1943]
[Missouri] : MO WPA Art Project
St. Louis, Missouri. Work Projects Administration
Poster Collection (Library of Congress).


Rumors cost us lives. "U-Boat Captain Kills 22 sailors"
Dimensions 26 x 20 inches
Form 1S5687RE


Loose Talk can cost Lives! Keep it under your Stetson
Artist: Glenn Grohe
Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches

Someone talked!
Artist: Frederick Siebel, 1942
Dimensions: 40 x 28 inches
Office of War Information [Washington, D.C.]
OWI Poster No. 18
U. S. Government Printing Office: 1942--O-496733"


A Careless word. a needless loss
Artist: Anton Otto Fischer, 1943
Dimensions: 28 x 22 inches
OWI Poster No. 36
Office of War Information, Washington, D.C
U. S. Government Printing Office : 1943--O-506018


Award for careless talk
don't discuss troop movements ship sailings war equipment
Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1944
Dimensions: 26 x 20 inches
Office of War Information
U. S. Government Printing Office : 1944--O-602587


Someone Spoke Out of Turn ...
No other information

Think - sailors have died
To give you this ride!
BE FAIR!
Wood cut by Frances O'Brien Garfield and Ernest Hamlin Laker?
Designed for Putnam County War Council, Carmel N.Y.


This happens when you talk to others about ship sailings : Let's make New Orleans a safe port of departure
Artist: John McCrady. [1941-1943].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-1591


Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy: convoy sails for England tonight
Publisher: Distributed by O.W.I.,
Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1943
Dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 inches
[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. :Notes: "U.S. War Dept., Army Service Forces, Adjutant General's Dept."--Monthly catalog 1944, p. 597.


Closed for the duration. loose talk can cost lives
Artist: Howard Scott, 1942
Issued by the British and American Ambulance Corps
19.25 x 12.75 in.


Loose talk can cost lives
Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1942
Dimensions 19.25 x 12.75 inches


Somebody blabbed... don't talk about ship movements! ...don't talk about war production!: button your lip!
Artist: Albert Dorne, 1942
Dimensions: 10 x 7 inches
Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C.451041.
U. S. Government Printing Office : 1942--O


A Careless word. a needless sinking
Artist: Anton Otto Fischer, 1942
Dimensions: 28 x 22 inches
OWI Poster No. 24
Office of War Information, Washington, D.C
U. S. Government Printing Office :1942--O-502219


Someone talked! U.S. Ship Sunk By
National war poster competition
Artist: Henry Koerner
R. Hoe Company, New York, N. Y.
Dimensions: 34 x 24 inches
Grinnell Lithographic Co., New York, N. Y.


Warning!
... Whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy.... shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years.
No other information


A War Message
Don't Discuss Trooop Movements
Ship Sailings
War Equipment
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