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title: Back 'Em Up with More Metal (anti-aircraft crew)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/back-em-up-with-more-metal-antiaircraft-stoops-1942/
description: 'Scrap-metal drive poster: at night, an anti-aircraft gun crew in helmets works a gun, searchlight beams crossing a sky with shell bursts.'
section: Collection
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# Back 'Em Up with More Metal (anti-aircraft crew)

Scrap-metal drive poster: at night, an anti-aircraft gun crew in helmets works a gun, searchlight beams crossing a sky with shell bursts, while a lookout with binoculars stares upward. The text asks civilians to supply more metal. The technique is transfer: the soldiers' danger and effort are linked directly to the household act of turning in scrap.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BACK 'EM UP
WITH MORE METAL
[signature:] HM STOOPS
[emblem:] U. S. ARMY
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-501763
```

[← When You're A.W.O.L. You're Working for the Axis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/awol-working-for-the-axis-1942/) [Back 'Em Up with More Metal (infantry crawling) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/back-em-up-with-more-metal-infantry-von-schmidt-1942/)

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