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title: Air Raid Precautions Have Been Taken Here
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/air-raid-precautions-have-been-taken-here-1941/
description: 'Small civil-defense window card: a large red check mark beside the blue-and-red Civil Defense (CD) triangle emblem.'
section: Collection
---

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# Air Raid Precautions Have Been Taken Here

Small civil-defense window card: a large red check mark beside the blue-and-red Civil Defense (CD) triangle emblem, with blanks for an air raid warden's signature and address. The technique is faint here; the official emblem and the signed check lend the warden's authority to a household's claim of preparedness (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
HAVE BEEN TAKEN HERE
Signed by ______ WARDEN.
______ ADDRESS
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-27730-1
[emblem:] CD
```

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