
"Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy" loose talk homeland security usa WWII patriotic poster published for the Office of War Information a copyright free image of artwork by Stevan Dohanos printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C. Click for larger print file public domain image graphic art homeland security USA poster Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy.
American Artist Magazine Illustrator Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994)
This "Bits of Careless of Talk are Pieced Togeather by the Enemy" poster is only one of several of the great "careless talk" type posters that American artist/illustrator Stevan Dohanos composed for the U.S. Office of War Information but he like Norman Rockwell was an artist of the "social realist school" and his best works were snippets of American civilians and their life he painted for more than 100 covers of the Saturday Evening Post magazine.
Other War Posters by American artist Stevan Dohanos in the University of Texas Library Collection
American Art Archives biography and additional artworks
More about the life and artistic accomplishments of Stevan Dohanos from Wikipedia Biography
World War 2 Homeland Security USA Safety Patriotic Posters, a U.S. "Loose Talk" Type Poster: "Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy"
Espionage has been with us since early time but the immigrant/melting pot based nature of the United States and our relatively late involvement in World War 2 made 1940s America a lucrative environment for spies and potential saboteurs. Naturally the dangers and concerns of national security intensified when the United States entered the war and America's overseas military and homeland patriots urgently needed additional protection. The U.S. Government had a great need to alert its' military and private citizens to the presence of enemy spies and saboteurs lurking in American society. A major advertising blitz involving all media eventually produced thousands of remarkable "careless talk" type posters to warn people that small snippets of information regarding troop movements or other logistical details would be useful to the enemy and could easily compromise national security and U.S. military personnel' safety. These vintage 1940s public domain poster images like this one "Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy" displayed on this page from the Safety and National Security World War 2 Gallery of this website allow you to own a copyright free piece of WWII history, a historic patriotic artwork poster.
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