Markings of U.S. chemical munitions
War Department graphic training chart with five arrow-shaped rows, each pairing an icon (ambulance, weeping helmeted soldier, smoke cloud, burning building) with a category name and the colour-banded stencil mark for that munition. The technique is faint here: it is mostly a plain identification chart, with the category names (casualty, harassing) as the nearest euphemism.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department
- 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
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1337 (NAID 514991).
Text on the object
Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 3-6 (Ref. FM 3-5) War Department 6 June 1944 Reproduction Without Permission Prohibited MARKINGS OF U. S. CHEMICAL MUNITIONS CASUALTY (PERSISTENT) GAS CASUALTY (NONPERSISTENT) GAS HARASSING GAS SMOKE SMOKE INCENDIARY INCEN [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944-O-[illegible digits]]
