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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, artist H. M. Stoops
- 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
- War and the military, Home front
- 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, artist H. M. Stoops. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-445A (NAID 513913).
Text on the object
BACK 'EM UP WITH MORE METAL [signature:] HM STOOPS [emblem:] U. S. ARMY [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-501763
