Allies for a big job: OCD
Civilian-defense recruiting poster: the large letters OCD are filled with a dense aerial photograph of a crowd, under the headline 'Allies for a big job' and the line 'Cooperate with your Local Defense Council'. The crowd inside the letters is the bandwagon cue: many people are shown already taking part.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Civilian Defense (artist Emily Newman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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)
Office of Civilian Defense. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-333 (NAID 513780).
Text on the object
ALLIES for a big job OCD Cooperate with your Local Defense Council [signature:] EMILY NEWMAN [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—473121
