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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Liquor Loosens Lips: Don't Sell Your Country for a Drink
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · G-2, VI Army Corps, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster issued by G-2, the intelligence staff of the VI Army Corps, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-2602, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The careless-talk campaign followed soldiers off duty, and this sheet from a corps intelligence section names the bar as the place where secrets go.
What to notice
The alliteration of the first line, liquor loosens lips, and the trade in the second: a country for a drink.
Treason, bought for the price of a round.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Careless Talk
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- G-2, VI Army Corps, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 516306, local id 44-PA-2602), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 516306 · 44-PA-2602
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 516306, 44-PA-2602): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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