Casualties... on our home front they can be avoided!
Industrial-safety poster: a bandaged factory worker with an arm in a sling rests his cheek on his hand in front of smoking factory stacks, while an inset shows medics carrying a stretcher through a battlefield blast. The word CASUALTIES links war wounds to workplace injuries (transfer), and the injured worker and red sky are the fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons (Packer, artist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-564 (NAID 514043).
Text on the object
CASUALTIES... ON OUR HOME FRONT THEY CAN BE AVOIDED! [signature:] PACKER PRINTED IN U.S.A. [imprint: logo] B-158 Copyright "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
