Liberty Pass
Four-panel Navy cartoon sheet for sailors: 'Liberty Pass' shows a sailor leaving his ship, 'Met a Lass' shows him meeting a woman, 'No Pro' shows him beside a 'Pro Station' sign with his hand raised, and 'Mis'ry & Woe' shows him sitting under a cloud marked 'Gloom'. The sequence uses a comic outcome as a mild fear-appeal about venereal disease.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (artist Woodcock)
- 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
- Health, 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, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (artist Woodcock). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1284 (NAID 514890).
Text on the object
LIBERTY PASS LIBERTY PASS MET A LASS PRO STATION NO PRO GLOOM MIS'RY & WOE [signature: WOODCOCK] VP-10—Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S. Navy ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE · 1944 ·O—599220 Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
