Unusually blunt WWI poster

[Pat Holscher]

Attorney General Gregory apparently didn't mince words.

From WWI. Unusually blunt poster.



Pat

Pat

[Coydog]

Nothing like 100% honesty, always a rare quality, though whoever came up with the snappy and memorable "Loose lips sink ships!" would also be worthy of special recognition.

Monique MacNaughton
Coydog Press
http://coydog.fateback.com

[Terry Newton]

There is one supposedly printed during WWII about having a cup of Joe.

I dare say everyone would appreciate it being posted here. [:)]

[Trooper]

I don't know if it translates directly and it is certainly not in accord with out current pc climate but there was a British poster on the same theme that stated
"Be like Dad - keep Mum".

Dušan

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by Trooper
<br />I don't know if it translates directly and it is certainly not in accord with out current pc climate but there was a British poster on the same theme that stated
"Be like Dad - keep Mum".

Dušan

I haven't seen that one.

There's a lot of interesting ones on this theme. I don't recall the one that Terry mentions, but I have seen quite a few others. Some are really heavy handed, others appeal to sentimentality. For example, there's a WWII one with a dog looking sad by the uniform of a sailor, with the implication that the dog's owner is a dead sailor. The caption reads "Because Somebody Talked"

People have forgotten how very widespread efforts to keep in formation quiet in WWII went. Now, with tall the various information media out there, the huge volume of material that is freely released and discussed boggles the mind. Then the opposite was true. I can recall my father mentioning that for much of WWII there were no radio or news weather forcasts, as the fear was that enemy agents might pick that up and relay that on to folks who could use it (subs, ships). And as far fetched as that may sound, one of the very few instances in which a Wyoming Game Warden was killed in the line of duty involves just such a thing. A German immigrant was suspected of poaching, and had been in a local town making pro Third Reich statements. At the same time the FBI indicated that unaccounted short wave radio transmissions were being made someplace in the area. The warden went up to confront the suspect and was shot. The fellow was never caught.



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

British recruiting poster with an unusual approach:

http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept ... t/p10l.jpg

Pat

[Tim_McShane]

Originally posted by Pat Holscher
British recruiting poster with an unusual approach:

http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept ... t/p10l.jpg

Pat

Yikes! You'd think a message like that would panic the civilian population. I wonder what circulation this particular poster had.


Tim

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by Tim_McShane

Originally posted by Pat Holscher
British recruiting poster with an unusual approach:

http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept ... t/p10l.jpg

Pat

Yikes! You'd think a message like that would panic the civilian population. I wonder what circulation this particular poster had.


Tim

Yes, you have to wonder about advertising the front as a safer option than the home front.

Pat

[Terry Newton]

If I remember correctly the one I am thinking of said "Have a cup of Joe and shut the !@#$ up!"

Again, it may have been something someone drew up that never made it past the drawing board, or something someone recently made up on the computer. At any rate, it was a quickly understood message!

[JV Puleo]

In refrence to blunt posters, I have the famous WWI poster of a big bloody handprint labeled "The Hun, His Mark, Blot it Out."
Joe Puleo

[Pat Holscher]

Here's the one Joe mentions. I'd never heard of this one, another blunt classic.



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

A fairly heavy handed one:



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Laying on the guilt:



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Another one dispelling any room for doubt from WWI:



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Pay up or get a visit from Kaiser Bill:

http://digital.lib.umn.edu/IMAGES/refer ... p00991.jpg

Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Another interesting one:



Pat

[Ron Smith]

That one should be redistributed today...............

Ron Smith

[Pat Holscher]

I don't know if this is blunt, exceedingly odd, or something you have to be familiar with French culture at the time to grasp:



Surely this has something to do with a fund drive, but a German solider being stared down by a big rooster is a bit unusual.

[Pat Holscher]

Recalling the Great War on 11/11/11.

[browerpatch]

I listened to a PBS clip on my way home this afternoon about the Bonus Army. It included some audio clips from the '30s. Anyway, long story short, someone mentioned World War I, and I got to wondering when "The Big One" or "The Great War", or the "World War" began to be called World War I. Was it before World War II, or did it become known as the "First World War" when it became obvious that the second one was going to be a hopping affair, too?

Frank