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title: How's your bunker?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hows-your-bunker-navy-1944/
description: Cartoon of a sailor in profile whose torso is marked as a fuel gauge from EMPTY to FULL, under the headline 'How's your bunker?' and the line 'Food is your
section: Collection
---

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[![How's your bunker?, 1944 US poster: Cartoon of a sailor in profile whose torso is marked as a fuel gauge from EMPTY to FULL](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hows-your-bunker-navy-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hows-your-bunker-navy-1944.jpg)

# How's your bunker?

Cartoon of a sailor in profile whose torso is marked as a fuel gauge from EMPTY to FULL, under the headline 'How's your bunker?' and the line 'Food is your fuel. Don't waste it!' It uses an everyday sailor figure and a ship's-fuel comparison (plain-folks) to ask servicemen to take only what they will eat.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HOW'S YOUR BUNKER?
FULL
3/4
1/2
1/4
EMPTY
KNOW YOUR CAPACITY
-DON'T OVERLOAD
FOOD IS YOUR FUEL
DON'T WASTE IT!
[signature:] HOTCHKISS USNR
[imprint:] BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS : NAVY; U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-595865
```

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