Pipedown Soldier! Tokio's Listening!
Security poster: a uniformed soldier talks loudly into a telephone while a shadowed man in a hat listens from behind a corner. The headline tells the serviceman to pipe down because Tokio is listening. The fear-appeal is the hidden listener.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Facts and Figures
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, 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)
Office of Facts and Figures. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1510 (NAID 515176).
Text on the object
PIPEDOWN SOLDIER! TOKIO'S LISTENING! [signature: illegible] [imprint: Post on transportation property only. For additional copies write to Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C. . . . Specify GPO Jacket No. 451040.] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O]
