Duties of a Gas Sentinel
Army training poster in yellow-green: a soldier in helmet and gas mask strikes a hanging gas alarm over the giant word 'GAS', with six numbered pictogram panels listing a gas sentinel's duties. The technique is faint here; the oversized word and mask imply an unseen threat that the instructions address, a mild fear-appeal in a how-to sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department (Graphic Training Aid 3-7)
- 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
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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-708 (NAID 514189).
Text on the object
DUTIES OF A GAS SENTINEL 1 ENFORCES ALL HIS ORDERS. 2 KNOWS WHERE MEN IN HIS AREA ARE SLEEPING. 3 KEEPS ALERT FOR ALL SIGNS OF GAS ATTACK. 4 DETECTS THE PRESENCE OF GAS. 5 GIVES THE ALARM AND WAKES ALL SOLDIERS. 6 PROTECTS SUPPLIES IN AREA. DUTIES OF A GAS SENTINEL APPROVED WAR DEPARTMENT GRAPHIC TRAINING AID 3-7 REF. FM 21-40 and FM 21-45 WAR DEPARTMENT [illegible] JUNE 1944 REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION PROHIBITED [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944—O—601563
