Content note: A hand wearing a Japanese rising-sun ring cuts a ribbon of aircraft with scissors. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Stolen equipment is cutting your lifeline!
Poster of a hand holding large scissors that cut a white ribbon of bomber silhouettes in two, with the words 'Stolen equipment is cutting your lifeline!'. The hand wears a ring bearing the Japanese rising-sun design, tying theft to the enemy (transfer), and the severed aircraft stream carries the warning to soldiers' supply (fear-appeal).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not named (U.S. Government Printing Office imprint)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- 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)
Issuer not named. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1814 (NAID 515493).
Text on the object
STOLEN EQUIPMENT is cutting your lifeline ! [imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—601870]
