One mistake is one too many
Long banner-format Army Ordnance sheet with the slogan 'One Mistake is ONE TOO MANY' in blue and red lettering and an ordnance flaming-bomb badge at the right. There is no scene; the implied cost of an error is left to the reader, so the fear-appeal is faint and rests on the slogan alone.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- 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
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- 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-1459 (NAID 515122).
Text on the object
One Mistake is ONE TOO MANY [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 [remainder illegible] ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U.S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING!
