Rough-house: Save it for the enemy
Army bulletin-board sheet: a soldier in cartoon style is flung backwards off a cot through a window by a large black shadow figure, under the headline 'rough-house' and the line 'Save it for the Enemy'. The technique is faint: a mild fear-appeal about injury from horseplay, with the shadow figure standing for the roughhousing itself.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Conservation Program (SAVE)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- 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)
U.S. Army, Army Conservation Program. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1649 (NAID 515316).
Text on the object
(POST IMMEDIATELY ON ORGANIZATION BULLETIN BOARD — DISPLAY FOR 2 WEEKS ONLY) DISTRIBUTION: AAF(5); AGF(5); ASF(5); C(1); F(1); (no overseas distribution). ☆ GPO 619923 rough-house Save it for the ENEMY U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM ACP No. 99-P-15 (8)
