A war message: Fight waste!
Narrow red, white and blue sheet: a dark eagle with a banner reading 'Fight waste!' above four numbered rules, 'Conserve everything you use', 'Buy only what is necessary', 'Salvage what you don't need', 'Share what you have'. The technique is faint here; the eagle emblem lends national weight to a plain list of requests.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not named on the sheet
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Issuer not named on the sheet. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-295 (NAID 513742).
Text on the object
A WAR MESSAGE FIGHT WASTE! 1 Conserve everything you use 2 Buy only what is necessary 3 Salvage what you don't need 4 Share what you have [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--597492]
