Attention! Stick to your job - Oil is Ammunition
Oil-worker morale poster: a smiling four-star general in uniform appears beside a quotation over his facsimile signature, 'Your work is vital to Victory... Our tanks must have oil!', with the instruction 'Stick to your job - Oil is Ammunition'. The commander's name and rank are the testimonial; the slogan equates oil with ammunition.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Petroleum Industry War Council
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, 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)
Petroleum Industry War Council. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-431 (NAID 513890).
Text on the object
ATTENTION ! "Your work is vital to Victory...Our ships...Our planes... Our tanks must have oil!" [signature:] Dwight D. Eisenhower SUPREME COMMANDER ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Stick to your job- OIL IS AMMUNITION [imprint:] LITHO. IN U.S.A. [imprint:] PETROLEUM INDUSTRY WAR COUNCIL
