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Let Me Do the Talking! Serve in Silence

Let Me Do the Talking! Serve in Silence

Poster showing a large artillery gun barrel pointing at the viewer, headline 'Let ME do the talking!' (ME underlined) and a banner 'Serve in silence'. Transfer: the authority of the gun is used to give civilian silence the weight of military service. No enemy figure appears.

Date
1942
Period
Second World War
Made by
U.S. government home-front campaign
Region
North America
Country
United States
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Roosevelt Administration
Leader
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Warn or inform
Themes
Home front, Security and surveillance
Event
World War II
Techniques
Transfer
Regime
Roosevelt administration
Leader
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights
Public domain (U.S. government work)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

LET ME DO THE
TALKING!

SERVE IN SILENCE
[smaller line below, illegible]

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