"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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Conservation Project (Save Conservation Program)
- 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. Army, Army Conservation Project (Save Conservation Program). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-972 (NAID 514479).
Text on the object
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
