Content note: Photograph of a wrecked car and a covered body on the road, overprinted with caricature heads of Axis leaders in stock wartime ethnic-caricature style. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Praise the Lord this saves us ammunition
Traffic-safety poster: a black-and-white photograph of a wrecked car and a covered body on the road, overprinted with three red caricature heads wearing Nazi, Japanese and Italian-style caps, under a musical staff carrying the slogan. The heads are drawn as gloating over the crash. The tell is fear-appeal from the crash photograph, with the Axis caricatures casting road deaths as a gain for the enemy.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Traffic Safety Association of Detroit
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, 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)
Traffic Safety Association of Detroit. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1537 (NAID 515202).
Text on the object
PRAISE THE LORD THIS SAVES US AMMUNITION [imprint:] TRAFFIC SAFETY ASSOCIATION of DETROIT
