Nearly right won't do
Long narrow banner poster: the words NEARLY RIGHT in blue and WON'T DO in red, ending in the flaming-bomb insignia of the Ordnance Department and the slogan Keep 'em shooting. There is no figure or scene; the technique is faint, with the branch insignia and slogan lending the Army's authority to a plain demand for exactness.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1393 (NAID 515057).
Text on the object
NEARLY RIGHT WON'T DO [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 194[illegible]-O-[illegible]] ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING!
