Wanted: Scrap Metal...To Make Tanks, Guns, Ammunition
A dark silhouette of a tank climbs a slope against an orange ground behind the headline 'Wanted SCRAP METAL ..to make TANKS, GUNS, AMMUNITION'. The tank image carries the transfer tell: the weapon's force is attached to household scrap, and the last line sends the viewer to a local committee.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Public Information, for the National Salvage Office, Ottawa, under authority of the Minister of National War Services (J. G. Gardiner)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired; no URAA restoration)
Public Information / National Salvage Office, Ottawa (Department of National War Services), Canada, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
Wanted SCRAP METAL ..to make TANKS, GUNS, AMMUNITION GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMITTEE ISSUED BY PUBLIC INFORMATION, FOR NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, OTTAWA; UNDER AUTHORITY OF HON. J. G. GARDINER, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES
