A wrong address here puts his address here
Shipping-label poster on a wooden crate: a stencilled address is cut across by a brush-stroke headline, and a knothole in the crate shows a wrecked aircraft at night. The pairing implies a misaddressed shipment ends at a lost aircraft, a fear-appeal about consequences aimed at supply personnel.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department (Graphic Training Aid 38-1)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-299 (NAID 513746).
Text on the object
[crate stencil, cropped:] 30-ORD II A334 A WRONG ADDRESS HERE PUTS HIS ADDRESS HERE [imprint:] Identification of Separate Shipments "Wrong Address Here Puts His Address Here," approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 38-1, War Department 27 July 1944 (reproduction without permission prohibited). [imprint:] U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944-O-[number illegible]
