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title: Here's Why Uncle Sam Needs Your Scrap Metal Now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heres-why-uncle-sam-needs-your-scrap-metal-now-1941/
description: 'Scrap-drive poster: seven silhouettes (bomb, machine gun, howitzer, naval shell, tank, battleship, anti-aircraft gun).'
section: Collection
---

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[![Here's Why Uncle Sam Needs Your Scrap Metal Now!, 1941 US poster: Scrap-drive poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heres-why-uncle-sam-needs-your-scrap-metal-now-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/heres-why-uncle-sam-needs-your-scrap-metal-now-1941.jpg)

# Here's Why Uncle Sam Needs Your Scrap Metal Now!

Scrap-drive poster: seven silhouettes (bomb, machine gun, howitzer, naval shell, tank, battleship, anti-aircraft gun), each over a pile of scrap and labelled with the tonnage of scrap it requires, above 'Salvage for Victory!'. The technique is faint: figures are given without sources, with the slogan as appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Here's Why UNCLE SAM
NEEDS YOUR SCRAP METAL
Now!
A 2,000-lb. Aerial Bomb
Requires 500 Pounds of
Scrap Metals
A 50-calibre Machine Gun
Requires 50 Pounds
of Scrap Metals
A 75-mm Howitzer Requires
Half a Ton
of Scrap Metals
A 16-inch Naval Shell
Requires Half a Ton
of Scrap Metals
A Medium 27-ton Tank
Requires 18 Tons of
Scrap Metals
A 35,000-ton Battleship
Requires 9,000 Tons of
Scrap Metals
A 3-inch Anti-aircraft Gun
Requires 3 Tons
Scrap Metals
Your SCRAP MATERIALS
WILL MAKE WAR MATERIALS
Salvage for Victory!
Ask HERE
FOR INFORMATION
ABOUT SCRAP DISPOSAL
[imprint: A-143 FF 2-10 Lithographed in United States of America]
```

[← Here's a war job for you: Railroad workers urgently needed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heres-a-war-job-for-you-railroad-workers-1941/) [He's Doing His Bit! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hes-doing-his-bit-production-soldier-1941/)

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