One mistake is one too many (partial banner)
Colour reproduction of the left part of the Ordnance Department banner 'One Mistake is ON...', cut off at the right edge, so the red 'ONE TOO MANY' and the badge are missing. The warning is the slogan alone and the fear-appeal is faint.
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-1459B (NAID 515123).
Text on the object
One Mistake is ON [cut off at the right edge] [imprint:] [illegible]
