---
title: '"Here''s how" to keep vehicles off the deadline on the firing line'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heres-how-vehicles-off-the-deadline-1944/
description: 'Army vehicle-maintenance poster: a large War Department Technical Manual TM 21-305, ''Driver''s Manual'', dated December 1944.'
section: Collection
---

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# "Here's how" to keep vehicles off the deadline on the firing line

Army vehicle-maintenance poster: a large War Department Technical Manual TM 21-305, 'Driver's Manual', dated December 1944, above a cartoon soldier whose head has jumped off his body in a shout. The technique is faint: the official manual's authority is attached to a comic scene of what neglect costs.

## 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

```
NEW EDITION
Pocket size
FOR EVERY DRIVER
(Replaces TM 10-460)
TM 21-305
WAR DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL MANUAL
DRIVER'S MANUAL
WAR DEPARTMENT . DECEMBER 1944
"Here's how"
TO KEEP VEHICLES
OFF THE DEADLINE
ON THE FIRING LINE
[badge:] U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM
OPERATE AND MAINTAIN VEHICLES PROPERLY!
[imprint:] ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT NO. 133-O-25
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-621337
```

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