He captured a hill with a telephone! Something YOU helped produce helped the attack!
Illustrated production-drive poster: a signalman in helmet and headset, strapped to a palm trunk, works a telephone line above a beach where landing craft unload and smoke rises. The headline says 'He captured a hill with a telephone!' and the base panel tells the factory worker that 'Something YOU helped produce helped the attack!'. The technique is transfer of battlefield credit to home-front output.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, Home front
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-939 (NAID 514445).
Text on the object
HE CAPTURED A HILL WITH A TELEPHONE! Something YOU Helped Produce Helped the Attack! [signature: Packer] [imprint: PRINTED IN U.S.A.] [imprint: Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK] [imprint: small mark and number, illegible]
