Shooting off your face won't help free speech!
Security-of-information sheet from an Oregon airfield: a skull in a business suit holds a revolver to its own cheek while a theatrical mask flies off to the left, under the headline about shooting off your face. The skull stands for self-inflicted harm from careless talk; the threat is implied, the fear-appeal is the dominant device.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Pendleton Field, Oregon (U.S. Army Air Forces); Pvt. F. Smith
- 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
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- 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)
Pendleton Field, Oregon. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1738 (NAID 515409).
Text on the object
SHOOTING OFF YOUR FACE won't help Free Speech! PENDLETON FIELD, OREGON 3 PVT. F. SMITH
