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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces (artist: Lantz)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- 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
- 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. Army Air Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1391E (NAID 515054).
Text on the object
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
