Don't Risk Spoiling Your Leave by "Bottle Fatigue"
Navy cartoon poster aimed at sailors on leave: two drunken sailors in red armchairs, one waving a bottle and glass, above a panel headed 'Here's what can happen!!' with four small scenes: liquor confiscated by a shore patrolman, end of liberty, missing your ship (a sailor behind bars) and a possible general court-martial. The punishments are the fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (artist Nick Pouletsos, USNR; NAVPERS 15,094)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-683 (NAID 514162).
Text on the object
DON'T RISK SPOILING YOUR LEAVE BY "BOTTLE FATIGUE" HERE'S WHAT CAN HAPPEN!! CONFISCATION OF LIQUOR END OF YOUR LIBERTY WATCH YOUR STEP MISSING YOUR SHIP POSSIBLE G.C.M. [armbands:] SP [imprint:] NAVPERS 15,094 [signature:] Nick Pouletsos USNR [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1945-O-635216
