Happy landing? Don't let sabotage wreck it!
Air-base security poster: a cartoon pilot in a yellow aircraft marked 'Victory' waves from the cockpit under the headline 'Happy landing?', above 'Don't let sabotage wreck it!'. A panel urges 'If you question it - report it!' to the intelligence officer. The technique is fear-appeal: the question mark hints the landing may fail, and the remedy is reporting.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- OCASC Intelligence Section
- 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
- Security and surveillance, 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)
OCASC Intelligence Section. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-932 (NAID 514438).
Text on the object
HAPPY LANDING? VICTORY DON'T LET SABOTAGE WRECK IT! IF YOU QUESTION IT-REPORT IT! COME CALL 242 or WRITE - INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. PRODUCTION OF OCASC -INTELLIGENCE SECTION- [signature: CPL. A. E. [illegible]]
