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title: Floating Smoke Pot, M4A2
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/floating-smoke-pot-m4a2-1944/
description: A training chart with a cutaway drawing of a floating smoke pot beside a closed drum stencilled 'HC-Smoke', with callouts for pull ring, igniter tube.
section: Collection
---

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# Floating Smoke Pot, M4A2

A training chart with a cutaway drawing of a floating smoke pot beside a closed drum stencilled 'HC-Smoke', with callouts for pull ring, igniter tube, void, retaining disc, and fast and slow burning mixtures. The persuasion technique is faint here: it is a technical training aid, and the only selective element is that it shows how the device works and nothing else (card-stacking at its weakest).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FLOATING SMOKE POT, M4A2
PULL RING
VOID
IGNITER TUBE
RETAINING DISC
FAST BURNING MIXTURE
SLOW BURNING MIXTURE
HC - SMOKE
EA 10-43
LOT 123
FLOATING SMOKE POT, M4A2
Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 3-10
Ref. TM 3-300
WAR DEPARTMENT • 25 AUGUST 1944
Reproduction without permission prohibited
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (fine print, not fully legible)
```

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