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title: Your job is not done until ship has landed!
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description: 'Two-panel comic: navigator Gooney checks his watch and packs up his report five minutes before landing, then stands tiny and shrunken among crewmen who'
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# Your job is not done until ship has landed!

Two-panel comic: navigator Gooney checks his watch and packs up his report five minutes before landing, then stands tiny and shrunken among crewmen who glare down at him after the estimated time of arrival passes with clouds over the field. The technique is a fear-appeal of ridicule: the oversight is shown as public shaming by his crew.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BASE LANDING—5 MINUTES—BY HIS E. T. A.
“NAVIGATOR GOONEY” IS ALL PACKED AWAY
E. T. A. PASSED BY AN HOUR OR SO
ABOUT CLOUDS OVER FIELD “GOONEY” DIDN’T KNOW.
YOUR JOB IS NOT DONE UNTIL
SHIP HAS LANDED!
REPORT
[signature:] LANTZ
[imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—500830
```

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