Nice going men... Looks like a perfect score today!
Navy comic-strip poster in five tiers. An officer praises a gun crew, sailors on shore leave steer a shipmate toward a girl, a week later the gun crew is in action against aircraft, and one sailor, sick in his bunk, is blamed for letting the crew down. The fear-appeal rests on the combat cost of untreated venereal disease, and the closing line tells the reader to see the medical officer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (VP-15), drawn by Bode
- 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
- Health, 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, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (VP-15), drawn by Bode. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1405 (NAID 515069).
Text on the object
NICE GOING MEN ... LOOKS LIKE A PERFECT SCORE TODAY ! UMM! UMM! SERVIC[E] CENT[ER] [sign cut off by panel edge] A WEEK LATER— IN ACTION ! WE WERE LUCKY TO GET THROUGH THAT ! SPIKE ! WHAT'S WRONG? IT WAS THOSE XC?!$!!XO PILLS YOU BOUGHT! ALMOST CURTAINS FOR US ... YOU SURE LET US DOWN CHUM! IF YOU GOTTA GET VD—DON'T TREAT YOURSELF—SEE THE MEDICAL OFFICER—BUT QUICK ! [signature:] BODE VP-15—Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U. S. Navy [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—674938 Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
