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title: Attack Now! Your Army needs More Copper-Zinc-Lead for More tanks
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/attack-now-copper-zinc-lead-1942/
description: 'Industrial-output poster: a tank charges over a ridge with its gun firing under the headline ATTACK NOW!, and the text below asks for more copper.'
section: Collection
---

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# Attack Now! Your Army needs More Copper-Zinc-Lead for More tanks

Industrial-output poster: a tank charges over a ridge with its gun firing under the headline ATTACK NOW!, and the text below asks for more copper, zinc and lead for more tanks. The tank image stands in for the metals; the poster gives the need but no figures, so its argument rests on the picture (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ATTACK NOW!
Your Army needs More
Copper-Zinc-Lead
for More tanks
[imprint:] U. S. ARMY
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE · 1942 · O-479871
```

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