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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (artist Hotchkiss, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1027 (NAID 514553).
Text on the object
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
