A real partnership
Line-drawn domestic scene: a father reading a letter, a pipe in hand, quotes his soldier son ('You're getting the metal out. I'm dishing it out. We're quite a team!') while his wife knits. The son appears in a thought cloud, writing in a foxhole. A scrap-metal drive is framed as the parents' part of the fighting; ordinary-family imagery carries the ask.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-290 (NAID 513737).
Text on the object
A REAL PARTNERSHIP HE SAYS, "DEAR DAD—YOU'RE GETTING THE METAL OUT. I'M DISHING IT OUT. WE'RE QUITE A TEAM!" [seal] U. S. ARMY [signature: illegible] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 O - 547233]
