Air-raid notice: 'This city is the next target' (US leaflet to Japanese civilians)
Front of a small Japanese-language leaflet: a black band across the top carries the title in large cream characters, 'Air-raid advance notice', above a red field with a cream starburst that reads 'This city is the next target of the American air force's attack.' The tell is the bare, imminent-strike statement addressed to civilians; the Library of Congress summary says the leaflet urged residents to evacuate before bombing.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. psychological warfare staff, Pacific (issuing unit not stated on the item)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- US wartime military leaflet; LOC: No known restrictions on publication
U.S. psychological warfare staff (issuer per LOC lot); Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 8093, LC-DIG-ppmsca-13367.
Text on the object
Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked
空襲豫告 この都市が 米空軍の 次の攻撃 目標です
Air-raid advance notice This city is the next target of the American air force's attack.
