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title: Récupérez les OS [Salvage the bones] (French-language version)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-recuperez-les-os-glycerine-colle-french-1941/
description: A photograph of a gunner at a machine gun in an aircraft sits under an orange splash headed 'Récupérez les OS'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Récupérez les OS \[Salvage the bones\], 1941 Canada poster: A photograph of a gunner at a machine gun in an aircraft sits under](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-recuperez-les-os-glycerine-colle-french-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-recuperez-les-os-glycerine-colle-french-1941.jpg)

# Récupérez les OS [Salvage the bones] (French-language version)

A photograph of a gunner at a machine gun in an aircraft sits under an orange splash headed 'Récupérez les OS', with arrows reading 'glycerine for explosives' and 'glue for aircraft'. The airman's photograph attaches the prestige of the fighting man to household bone scraps, and the arrows state the claimed wartime use.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Récupérez
les OS
on les transforme en..
GLYCERINE POUR EXPLOSIFS
COLLE POUR AVIONS
CONSULTEZ VOTRE COMITÉ LOCAL
[blank box beside a telephone icon]
PUBLIÉ PAR LE SERVICE DE L'INFORMATION POUR L'OFFICE NATIONAL DE RÉCUPÉRATION, AVEC L'AUTORISATION DE L'HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTRE DES SERVICES NATIONAUX DE GUERRE. Imprimé au Canada. FB-2F
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Salvage
the BONES
they are turned into..
GLYCERINE FOR EXPLOSIVES
GLUE FOR AIRCRAFT
CONSULT YOUR LOCAL COMMITTEE
[blank box beside a telephone icon]
PUBLISHED BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, WITH THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES. Printed in Canada. FB-2F
```

[← Récupérez les Métaux pour Forger nos Armes! \[Salvage metals to forge our weapons!\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-recuperez-les-metaux-pour-forger-nos-armes-1941/) [Roll out the rubber: every ounce of scrap rubber is needed for our mobile forces. Get in the scrap →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-roll-out-the-rubber-get-in-the-scrap-wbw-1941/)

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