3rd week's winner: Fire Slogan Contest
A smiling serviceman in a U.S. collar insignia holds up a card with the winning slogan, a rhyming-style joke about a crew chief who let his plane go up in smoke. The contest winner is shown with his name and unit, a testimonial from a peer, and the base line states that carelessness causes fires.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces, 4014th AAF Base Unit (issuer not printed)
- 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. Army Air Forces, 4014th AAF Base Unit (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-615 (NAID 514093).
Text on the object
3rd WEEK'S WINNER FIRE SLOGAN CONTEST CREW CHIEF HENRY IS A JOKE LET HIS PLANE GO UP IN SMOKE HE WAS CARELESS, BUT QUITE SANE JUST FORGOT TO GROUND THE PLANE. S/SGT. John C. Rogers 4014 AAF BASE UNIT SEC. B CARELESSNESS CAUSES FIRES U.S.
