'People of Grenada' leaflet (Operation Urgent Fury)
A halftone photograph of armed, helmeted soldiers advancing across open ground, with a white text panel set over the lower centre: 'People of Grenada: your Caribbean neighbors with U.S. support have come to Grenada to restore democracy and insure your safety.' The tell is the virtue-word pairing, 'democracy' and 'safety', offered as the whole account of the operation, with no figure, date or named authority behind either word.
- Date
- October 1983
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. armed forces (leaflet dropped during the October 1983 invasion of Grenada)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Reagan Administration
- Leader
- Ronald Reagan
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Invasion of Grenada
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph of a leaflet, uploaded by EDomingos), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons PD-USGov)
Leaflet: U.S. government work, public domain; the Commons file page carries PD-USGov, and a photograph of a flat printed work adds no new copyright. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons (EDomingos).
Text on the object
PEOPLE OF GRENADA YOUR CARIBBEAN NEIGHBORS WITH U.S. SUPPORT HAVE COME TO GRENADA TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY AND INSURE YOUR SAFETY.
Read from a 500 px photograph; the printed text is fully legible. The English text is the original, so no translation is given.
