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title: 'Urgent Notice: Fighting Men and Materials Are Being Shifted'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/urgent-notice-final-phases-war-with-japan-1945/
description: An all-text red poster of four numbered points warns that information 'is reaching Japan' and tells readers not to discuss troop and ship movements, new…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Text poster using the slur 'the Jap' once in its body text. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Urgent Notice: Fighting Men and Materials Are Being Shifted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/urgent-notice-final-phases-war-with-japan-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/urgent-notice-final-phases-war-with-japan-1945.jpg)

# Urgent Notice: Fighting Men and Materials Are Being Shifted

An all-text red poster of four numbered points warns that information 'is reaching Japan' and tells readers not to discuss troop and ship movements, new weapons or military information gained in confidence. It is signed by the Army's G-2, the Director of Naval Intelligence and the FBI Director, and refers to 'the Jap' once in the body text.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
URGENT
NOTICE

1. Fighting men and materials are being shifted for final phases of the war with Japan.

2. The enemy is using desperate measures to obtain all information which will help him delay his complete defeat.
Such information is reaching Japan.

3. The small bit of information you discuss may help the Jap determine where, when, and with how much we strike.

4. Don't discuss:
(a) Location or movements of men, ships and materials within, to or from Asiatic-Pacific areas.
(b) New weapons.
(c) Military information gained in confidence.

Clayton Bissell, Major General, GSC
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2

Hewlett Thebaud, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
Director of Naval Intelligence

J. Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
```

Three agency seals and handwritten signatures sit above the printed names. Imprint line at the foot (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945, with a number) too small to read reliably.

[← The Little Jap Is a Big Job! (U.S. Army Official Poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-little-jap-is-a-big-job-army-1945/) [Azad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 1 February 1945) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-edition-1945/)

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