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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (printed by U.S. Government Printing Office)
- 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, Labor, 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-430 (NAID 513889).
Text on the object
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
