Give 'em the stuff to fight with
A mud-streaked infantryman in a steel helmet carries a rifle and half-carries a wounded or exhausted comrade through smoke, under the headline 'Give 'em the stuff to fight with...'. The soldier's hardship is set directly beside the plea to war workers; the technique is transfer of the front-line burden onto the production effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Facts and Figures / War Production Board (artist signed 'Shrag')
- 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
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- 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)
Office of Facts and Figures / War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-128 (NAID 513576).
Text on the object
"Give 'em the stuff to fight with..." [signature: Shrag] [imprint: illegible small print, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D.C.]
