Content note: Text poster using the slur 'the Jap' once in its body text. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department (Military Intelligence G-2), Office of Naval Intelligence and the FBI, jointly signed; printed by the Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- TestimonialName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- UNT Digital Library, University of North Texas Libraries (World War II Posters collection), ark:/67531/metadc346, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal work; federal imprint on poster)
UNT Libraries, UNT Digital Library, World War II Posters (metadc346). Rights basis: federal imprint/credit: 'U.S. Government Printing Office 1945', issued over the names of War Department, Navy and FBI officials.
Text on the object
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.
