Now That Our Men Have Landed on Enemy Soil Surely No One Will Endanger Their Supply of Vital Munitions by Taking Unnecessary Journeys
A photograph of soldiers wading ashore from a landing craft through surf and smoke fills the top half; below, tilted banners ask whether anyone would 'endanger their supply of vital munitions by taking unnecessary journeys'. The tell for transfer is the borrowing of the soldiers' landing to attach weight to a request about rail travel, with a guilt framing ('surely no one will').
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Railway Executive Committee (printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office); artist Adolf Munzer; printed by Jas. Truscott & Son Ltd, London and Tonbridge
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Railway Executive Committee (printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office), c. 1939-1945 (NARA, RG 44 World War II Foreign Posters, NAID 44266835).
Text on the object
NOW THAT OUR MEN HAVE LANDED ON ENEMY SOIL SURELY NO ONE WILL ENDANGER THEIR SUPPLY OF VITAL MUNITIONS BY TAKING UNNECESSARY JOURNEYS RAILWAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE No. 564 JAS. TRUSCOTT & SON, LTD., LONDON & TONBRIDGE
