Don't Hoard Spare Parts
Home-front poster in red and grey: a cartoon figure with bulging eyes and buck teeth sits against a brick wall hugging a motor part, surrounded by a heap of identical parts. A torn notice on the wall shows a scowling soldier with a wrench asking who has the one spare part he needs to fix his tank. The hoarder is drawn as a grotesque caricature, a name-calling device, and the notice supplies the cost of hoarding.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government Printing Office issue (issuer not named on sheet); artist Will Eisner
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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. Government Printing Office issue. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-668 (NAID 514147).
Text on the object
WHO HAS THE ONE SPARE PART I NEED TO FIX MY TANK ?! [ORD]NANCE DEPT. [partly hidden by the pile of parts] Don't Hoard SPARE PARTS [signature: CWO Will Eisner] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—577520]
