Like digging a foxhole, it's for your own protection: Make conservation a habit
A helmeted soldier digs a foxhole with an entrenching shovel, rifle beside him and a plane overhead, under 'Like digging a foxhole' and 'It's for your own protection'. The tell is the carry-over of a life-saving act to saving supplies, shown through an ordinary front-line soldier.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Conservation Program (artist Earl Lonsbury)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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. Army, Army Conservation Program. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1290 (NAID 514896).
Text on the object
LIKE DIGGING A FOXHOLE U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM It's for your own protection MAKE CONSERVATION A HABIT [signature:] Earl Lonsbury [imprint:] ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT NO. 100-P-16 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-598576
