Chemical Grenades
War Department training chart titled 'Chemical Grenades': two labelled cutaway drawings, a bursting-type smoke grenade (white phosphorus) and a burning-type tear and vomiting gas grenade, with parts named by leader lines. The technique is faint here; it is a technical instruction sheet, and card-stacking applies only in that it shows the equipment's parts and nothing of effects or risks.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-570 (NAID 514050).
Text on the object
CHEMICAL GRENADES DETONATING FUZE BURSTER CHARGE BURSTER WELL WHITE PHOSPHORUS FILLING SMOKE WP EA-8-42 LOT-123 BURSTING TYPE IGNITING FUZE VOID STARTER MIXTURE SAFETY RING ADHESIVE TAPE GAS CN-DM EA-8-42 LOT-123 TEAR AND VOMITING GAS BURNING TYPE [imprint:] CHEMICAL GRENADES Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 3-8 WAR DEPARTMENT · 25 AUGUST 1944 Reproduction without permission prohibited [imprint:] [illegible] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
