Careless 'Borrowing' Is Sabotage
Workplace tool-discipline poster: a wrecked, burning bomber with a U.S. star-and-bar roundel lies under tall flames, with 'Careless Borrowing Is Sabotage' in large type. The label 'sabotage' is attached to a routine habit, and the burning aircraft stages the harm.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not printed; printed by U.S. Government Printing Office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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. government (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-554 (NAID 514033).
Text on the object
CARELESS 'BORROWING' IS SABOTAGE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944—O—601870
