Be careful what you say or write: "Please, get there ... and back!"
Colour photograph of a young woman kneeling in a rose-coloured outfit with a gold V on the chest, holding a framed photograph with its back toward the viewer, under the words 'Please, get there ... and back!' and 'Be careful what you say or write'. The technique is transfer: a pin-up image and a sentimental plea attach to a security-of-information warning, with the danger only implied.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Department, Adjutant General's Office ("Pin-up" Security Poster)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military, Home front
- 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)
War Department, Adjutant General's Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-456 (NAID 513926).
Text on the object
"PLEASE, get there . . . . . . . . and back!" BE CAREFUL what you say or write W.D., A.G.O. "Pin-up" Security Poster. Additional copies may be requisitioned as prescribed in AR 310-200, May 1, 1943, as changed by Changes 2, 15 September 1943. [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944-O-576708]
