Safety rules
Army information sheet for troopships: photographs of lifeboats, life rafts, a soldier donning a life preserver, men resting in life preservers and a boat being lowered, beside columns of rules and emergency instructions. The technique is faint: the closing line 'This knowledge may save your life' is a mild fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of the Chief of Transportation, Water Division; published by Special Service Division, A.S.F.
- 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
- 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)
Office of the Chief of Transportation, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1661 (NAID 515328).
Text on the object
SAFETY RULES Life boats in position on the deck of a transport. [caption illegible] life rafts on board a troop ship. A soldier puts on his life preserver. Fully dressed, relaxing soldiers use life preservers as pillows. A life boat being lowered. Going over the side. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS EXPLAINED RULES IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY [body text of the explanation, the rules and the emergency instructions: not transcribed here, too small to read in the available image] Prepared by OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF TRANSPORTATION WATER DIVISION PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION, A.S.F. [imprint: illegible] THIS KNOWLEDGE MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
