Lubbers Don't Live! Oh weep long and loud for a talker named Grey
Navy training sheet in verse: a sound-powered telephone headset and a jackbox left uncovered in the rain, then a sailor shouting into a dead phone while a gun mount stands behind him. The red slogan banner reads 'Lubbers Don't Live!'. The fear-appeal is comic: equipment neglect leaves a gun crew cut off.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Aids
- 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
- Theme
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1309K (NAID 514932).
Text on the object
OH WEEP LONG AND LOUD FOR A TALKER NAMED GREY WHO FORGOT TO RECAP HIS JACKBOX ONE DAY LUBBERS DON'T LIVE! CONTROL- CONTROL- D--*@???! THESE PHONES ! IT RAINED ALL THAT NIGHT AND GREY WAS ASTOUNDED NEXT DAY, WHEN HE FOUND THAT HIS CIRCUIT WAS GROUNDED! [imprint:] U.S. NAVY, BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, TRAINING AIDS · · · NAV. PERS. 900,008 A-11 [imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-561903
