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Lumber goes to war : more lumber means victory sooner : keep it coming.

Comic-book style drawings with captions illustrate how lumber is used in war: for floating dry docks for ship repair, Army gliders, train boxcars, and airplane propellers. Black drawings on blue paper.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wood at war.

Black and white poster with five photos showing the use of wood in military defense. Each photo has a caption underneath describing how the wood is being used.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wood follows the flag.

A series of red-tinted photographs depict the use of wood for war purposes. Each photo has a caption describing how the wood is being used.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Your metal in action.

A series of blue-tinted photographs with captions depicts the use of metal for war weapons and ships.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metal at the fighting front.

Five pictures of war activities involving metal. Each picture has extended text below the picture.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Something money can't buy-- : your campaign ribbons.

A man and woman stand in front of a wall poster showing military service ribbons. They each wear civilian service ribbons. A color inset in the foreground shows each civilian service award ribbon in detail.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wood flies to war : the Army & Navy need 20,000 square feet of plywood for each cargo plane.

A U.S. Army airplane flies through dark clouds.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. Army.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lumber does its stuff --a long way from home.

Poster consists of photographs and text in a purple-red tone. Six photographs depict the use of lumber by the U.S. armed forces in World War II: to build bridges, tents, and life rafts, and to ship supplies. Photos also illustrate how wooden shipping crates are re-used by field post offices and commissaries in the South Pacific.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

The knockout blow starts here : fellow soldiers.

A series of black & white photographs showing the manufacture of war supplies, their use in the battlefield, and the appreciation of the armed forces for the factory workers. Includes a graphic image of a bomb hitting a swastika.
Date: 1942
Creator: McL, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Back 'em up with more metal.

Color poster of at least seven soldiers in uniforms and helmets surrounding an anti-aircraft gun which is firing. Other guns can be seen firing in the background.
Date: 1942
Creator: Stoops, Herbert Morton
System: The UNT Digital Library

Your metal is on the attack : keep it coming!

Color illustration of soldiers wading from a ship or boat through water and storming a beach. Behind them is a tank about to exit a ship. More ships, a small boat, and explosions can be seen on the water in the background.
Date: 1943
Creator: Sewell, Amos, 1901-
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Army is counting on you for more metal.

A group of weary soldiers covered in dirt. Profuse sweat can be seen on the face of the soldier in front.
Date: 1943
Creator: Keppler, Victor
System: The UNT Digital Library

Give us lumber for more PT's.

Color image of war ships at sea. In the foreground is a boat with "PT 34" painted on it, shining a light and speeding forward. In the background, a ship is sinking as explosive flames rise from it. Other ships and flames can be seen in the distance on the left.
Date: 1943
Creator: AEL.
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Lumber production is falling behind our war needs. To save American soldiers' lives, we must provide the lumber our armed forces need--now!"

Poster shows four different black and white photos depicting the process of building a PT (patrol torpedo) boat; from cutting down a tree, through construction, up to the finished product. The quote appears in the middle, with a red border around it.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Back 'em up with more metal.

Color poster of two army soldiers in camouflage, holding rifles, crawling on their bellies on the grass at night.
Date: 1942
Creator: Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982
System: The UNT Digital Library

Your ore packs a punch!

Two miners listen to the radio. One miner rests his helmet on top of the radio. He rejoices as the radio announces a successful attack by U.S. tanks against the Nazi forces.
Date: 1943
Creator: Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System: The UNT Digital Library

The avenger's shadow : more metal for U.S. planes, tanks, guns.

Black and white drawing. A caricatured Japanese soldier holding a smoking gun stands over a fallen man labeled "U.S. pilot". In the distance is a pagoda. At right is a large shadow of a man's head and and shoulders, which appears to be descending over the Japanese soldier. He wears a miner's helmet and the words "more metal for U.S. planes, tanks, guns" appear on his shadow.
Date: 1943
Creator: Kirby, Rollin, 1875-1952
System: The UNT Digital Library

Award for careless talk : don't discuss troop movements, ship sailings, war equipment.

A hairy hand wearing a ring with a Nazi insignia holds an Iron Cross military decoration, also with a swastika on it. The poster background is red with a white border that has barbs pointing into the red area.
Date: 1944
Creator: Dohanos, Stevan, 1907-1994
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Not behind the plow"-- your metals are in the Army -- everywhere.

Five photos of various war-related activities to show where metal goes to use in the armed services.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Americans suffer when careless talk kills!

Color illustration of an older man in overalls, with his arm around a weeping older woman in a simple dress and apron. The woman holds a "Western Union" telegram and wipes her tears with her apron skirt. On the wall behind them hangs a service flag with a blue star centered on a white background, with a red border. (A blue star signifies a family member who is alive and serving in the war.)
Date: 1943
Creator: Anderson, Harry Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library

O'er the ramparts we watch : United States Army Air Forces.

A young man with dark hair stands in the clouds, holding a large rocket-shaped bomb. He wears a brown leather bomber jacket and a silver I.D. bracelet. Small images of military airplanes fly in the clouds below him.
Date: 1945
Creator: Schlaikjer, Jes Wilhelm, 1897-1982
System: The UNT Digital Library

"--Pass the ammunition" : the Army needs more lumber.

A smiling soldier in a combat uniform and helmet carries a wooden box. The box is stamped, '50 FU ZES P.D., M46'. In the background are artillery guns firing into a dark sky and another soldier carrying a similar box toward the battlefield.
Date: 1943
Creator: Stanley, Frederic
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wood shelters our planes : the Army & Navy need 156,000,000 board feet a year for hangars.

Scene of men building a hangar. In the foreground are several stacks of lumber. Two Army airplanes fly overhead.
Date: 1943
Creator: Rochon Hoover Studio
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aircraft insignia.

Twenty different types of airplanes fly across the scene, each with distinct markings. The main background is of clouds in the sky. The border is comprised of insignia of aircraft from 47 countries.
Date: 1943
Creator: Coggins, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library