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title: Fire Slogan Contest
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fire-slogan-contest-ocasc-1944/
description: 'Contest poster: a green bomber with U.S. star insignia drops bombs, each carrying a contest rule, onto an orange flame with ''FIRE SLOGAN CONTEST''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Fire Slogan Contest, 1944 US poster: Contest poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fire-slogan-contest-ocasc-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fire-slogan-contest-ocasc-1944.jpg)

# Fire Slogan Contest

Contest poster: a green bomber with U.S. star insignia drops bombs, each carrying a contest rule, onto an orange flame with 'FIRE SLOGAN CONTEST'. Prizes, rules and the 15 April 1944 deadline are printed on the bombs. The technique is faint; the tell is transfer, using air-raid imagery for a fire-prevention slogan contest.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
41 CASH AWARDS
See "TAILSPIN" or "TAKE OFF" for CONTEST RULES
SLOGANS MUST DEAL WITH FIRE PREVENTION
Each Week's CONTEST ENTRIES MUST BE IN THE OCASC INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, 4:45 P.M. EACH SATURDAY
WEEKLY AWARDS
$5.00 1ST PRIZE EACH WEEK
SUBMIT AS MANY SLOGANS AS YOU WISH
FOUR $2.00 PRIZES EACH WEEK
SAMPLE SLOGANS.. "BIG FIRES FROM LITTLE MATCHES GROW" "BURNED BOMBERS CAN'T BOMB"
$25.00 WAR BOND GRAND PRIZE
CONTEST OPEN TO MILITARY & CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
SEND ALL SLOGANS TO INTELLIGENCE OFFICER HEADQUARTERS BLDG. OCASC ROOM 202
DEADLINE for 1st CONTEST 15TH APRIL 1944
FIRE
SLOGAN
CONTEST
```

[← Fire Never Sleeps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fire-never-sleeps-army-conservation-1944/) [Floating Smoke Pot, M4A2 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/floating-smoke-pot-m4a2-1944/)

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