He's Doing His Bit!
Cartoon poster of a whistling draftee in hat and jacket striding past a 'To Training Camp' sign carrying a case marked 'DRAFTEE', with text urging war-plant workers to see themselves as 'production soldiers' backing the camps. Army status is lent to civilian work; the everyman figure is plain-folks.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh (sponsor not named)
- 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, Labor, 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)
Cyrus C. Hungerford. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-983 (NAID 514490).
Text on the object
HE'S DOING HIS BIT! ♪ YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW ♪ TO TRAINING CAMP DRAFTEE [signature: Hungerford] You're in the army now . . . Maybe not the draft army, but you are outfitting it. The surest way to make those tough babies on the other side BACK-DOWN is to BACK-UP those kids in camp . . . Back 'em to the limit . . . and fast! ★★★ You are a PRODUCTION SOLDIER . . . America's First Line of Defense is HERE [imprint: Copyright 1941, Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh, Pa.]
