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title: The Attack Begins in the Factory (Owen Stanley Mountains)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/attack-begins-in-factory-owen-stanley-uk-1939/
description: Soldiers haul a gun up a steep mountainside, captioned 'Guns to fight Japs being hauled up the Owen Stanley Mountains'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** The caption uses the ethnic slur 'Japs' for Japanese forces, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The Attack Begins in the Factory, 1939 UK poster: Soldiers haul a gun up a steep mountainside, captioned 'Guns to fight Japs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/attack-begins-in-factory-owen-stanley-uk-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/attack-begins-in-factory-owen-stanley-uk-1939.jpg)

# The Attack Begins in the Factory (Owen Stanley Mountains)

Soldiers haul a gun up a steep mountainside, captioned 'Guns to fight Japs being hauled up the Owen Stanley Mountains', above 'The attack begins in the factory'. The tell for transfer is the link from the factory slogan to the front-line image; for name-calling, the slur 'Japs' in the caption.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE ATTACK
BEGINS IN THE FACTORY
[caption:] Guns to fight Japs being hauled up the Owen Stanley Mountains.
[print line:] G.P. 3/15/6   PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY THOS. FORMAN & SONS LTD., NOTTINGHAM.  51-4268
```

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