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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not printed (scrap salvage campaign sheet)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Issuer not printed. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-976 (NAID 514483).
Text on the object
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]
