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title: 'Big Guns of the Home Front: Action Stations Everyone'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-big-guns-of-the-home-front-trevor-1941/
description: Two factory chimneys, drawn from above as twin gun barrels, smoke over a plant under the headline 'BIG GUNS OF THE HOME FRONT'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Big Guns of the Home Front: Action Stations Everyone, 1941 Canada poster: Two factory chimneys, drawn from above as twin gun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-big-guns-of-the-home-front-trevor-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-big-guns-of-the-home-front-trevor-1941.jpg)

# Big Guns of the Home Front: Action Stations Everyone

Two factory chimneys, drawn from above as twin gun barrels, smoke over a plant under the headline 'BIG GUNS OF THE HOME FRONT'. The weapon's menace is carried over to industrial output (transfer), and 'Action Stations Everyone' borrows naval alert language to address every civilian as crew (identity-fusion).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BIG GUNS OF
THE HOME FRONT

ACTION STATIONS Everyone

[signature:] TREVOR

ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, UNDER AUTHORITY OF HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES, OTTAWA.   PRINTED IN CANADA   IE-4
```

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