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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department (Graphic Training Aid 3-10)
- 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-779 (NAID 514267).
Text on the object
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)
