Lubbers Don't Live! Oh heed the fate of Whistlin' Joe
Navy training sheet in verse: a whistling sailor walks past a low rope railing with a life ring, and in the lower panel a seaman in a life jacket is swept overboard by a wave with a woman's face drawn in it. The fear-appeal is comic: carelessness near the rail ends in the water. The slogan banner is yellow.
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-1309H (NAID 514930).
Text on the object
OH HEED THE FATE OF WHISTLIN' JOE! FORGOT THE LIFE LINES WERE SO LOW. LUBBERS DON'T LIVE! SWISH BACK HOME THE WAC's WERE HIS PET RAVE; BUT HE WENT OVERBOARD FOR A WAVE! [imprint:] U.S. NAVY, BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, TRAINING AIDS · · · NAV. PERS. 900,008 A-9 [imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-561903
