Be sure it's right, check and double check!
Training poster on shipment markings: a requisition form, a yellow War Department shipping document and a crated box all carry the same code, linked by black arrows reading 'Here and here' and 'And here', with the slogan 'Be sure it's right, check and double check!'. The technique is faint here; this is mainly an instructional aid, and the closest is the slogan-style imperative.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- 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)
U.S. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-464 (NAID 513934).
Text on the object
REQUISITION To: SHIP To: BOBO-K-ORDII-SA302 Stock No. WAR DEPT. SHIPPING DOCUMENT DATE SHIPPED CAR NO. & INITIAL SEAL NOS. VOUCHER NO. STATION REQUISITION NO. CONSIGNOR: CONSIGNEE: BOBO-K-ORDII-SA302RA TYPE OF PKGS. PKG. NUMBER UNIT WT. TOTAL HERE AND HERE AND HERE BOBO-K-ORDII-SA302RA BE SURE IT'S RIGHT check and double check! [imprint:] Identification of Separate Shipments "Be Sure It's Right," approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 38-2, War Department 27 July 1944 (reproduction without permission prohibited). [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—603028
