Don't let him come home to this. Prevent forest fires!
Orange, black and grey poster: a uniformed soldier in a garrison cap stands with one boot on a log among burned, bare tree trunks, under the headline 'Don't let him come home to this', with 'Prevent forest fires!' in flame-edged letters below. The scorched landscape is the fear-appeal, and the serviceman is used to lend the soldier's claim on home to a fire-prevention request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- 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, 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. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-673 (NAID 514152).
Text on the object
DON'T LET HIM COME HOME TO THIS PREVENT FOREST FIRES! U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 O - 614514] NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
