He's a Fighting Fool, Give Him the Best You've Got (Ludekens)
War Production Board poster: a helmeted gunner with headset beside a large gun barrel, three aircraft overhead, the headline 'He's a fighting fool give him the best you've got' and the banner 'MORE PRODUCTION'. The serviceman's image is used to ask factory workers for output.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board (artist Fred Ludekens)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance, Labor
- 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)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-980 (NAID 514487).
Text on the object
He's a fighting fool give him the best you've got MORE PRODUCTION [signature: Fred Ludekens] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]] WAR PRODUCTION BOARD-A3
