Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet 64, “FASCISM!”

A 1945 pamphlet circulated within the U.S. Army to help serving soldiers understand the fascism that they were fighting, and how to recognise fascism.

This one is #64 of the “Army Talk” series issued by the War Department’s Army Orientation Branch, a unit of the Information and Education Division.

“Army Talk” is in Poster Bodoni Compressed, reversed, and “Orientation Fact Sheet” in letterspaced caps from Franklin Gothic, with the number 64 added from its Extra Condensed width. “FASCISM” looks a lot like Linotype’s Poster Bodoni. In fact, it’s Ludlow’s Bodoni Black: this design is distinguished by the forward-leaning S and the short lower part of C, among other things. A headline on page 6 of the pamphlet has the letter i with tilted dot – another characteristic feature of Bodoni Black. The text typeface is Linotype Bodoni.

Copies of the leaflet are available on the Internet Archive.