How does your driving mileage compare with these Navy drivers?
Navy Department safety poster on teal paper: two head-and-shoulder photographs, one of a man in a suit and one in an open-collar shirt, each named with his Navy station and a record of miles driven without accident, around a 'No-Accident Driver Award' badge. The named individuals serve as testimonial examples set against the reader's own driving.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy Department
- 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
- 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. Navy Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1007 (NAID 514533).
Text on the object
How does YOUR driving mileage compare with these Navy drivers? EDWARD PICKERALL U. S. NAVAL PROVING GROUNDS DAHLGREN, VIRGINIA HAS DRIVEN 187,141 MILES IN LAST TEN YEARS WITHOUT ACCIDENT. MALCOLM GRAHAM U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, FLA. HAS DRIVEN 135,246 MILES IN LAST NINE YEARS WITHOUT ACCIDENT. [badge: NO-ACCIDENT DRIVER AWARD] NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER N657- 440216 [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—588747]
