"How Not to Respond in an Air Raid"

Courtesy Library of Congress

Original caption from the Office of War Information: "Air raid protection--what NOT to do when alarm sounds. First and foremost, DON'T GET EXCITED! One of the enemy's chief purposes in an air raid is to create panic. Getting excited is helping the enemy to achieve this purpose. Keeping calm is defeating it. It is difficult to guess whether this girl is attempting to imitate an air raid siren or even Mussolini proclaiming another victorious retreat. At any rate here is not a good example to follow during an air raid."